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Bible Verses About Fear of God: Reverence

22 verses · 2 aspects

Verses on Reverence

  1. And all the people are seeing the voices, and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and the people see, and move, and stand afar off,

  2. and say unto Moses, `Speak thou with us, and we hear, and let not God speak with us, lest we die.'

  3. And Moses saith unto the people, `Fear not, for to try you hath God come, and in order that His fear may be before your faces--that ye sin not.'

  4. `Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, Him thou dost serve, and to Him thou dost cleave, and by His name thou dost swear.

  5. He is thy praise, and He is thy God, who hath done with thee these great and fearful things which thine eyes have seen:

  6. Who is this--the man fearing Jehovah? He directeth him in the way He doth choose.

  7. His soul in good doth remain, And his seed doth possess the land.

  8. The secret of Jehovah is for those fearing Him, And His covenant--to cause them to know.

  9. In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.

  10. The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

  11. And men have entered into caverns of rocks, And into caves of dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.

  12. In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,

  13. To enter into cavities of the rocks, And into clefts of the high places, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.

  14. and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:

  15. and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;

  16. See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.

  17. They lick dust as a serpent, as fearful things of earth, They tremble from their enclosures, Of Jehovah our God they are afraid, Yea, they are afraid of Thee.

  18. wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

  19. for also our God is a consuming fire.

  20. and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

  21. In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we--we also are in this world;

  22. fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;