^19 (A)For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. ^(B)But the Lord listened to me at that time also.

^16 [a]Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. ^(A)The effective, ^[b]fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man ^(B)with a nature like ours, and ^(C)he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

¹⁰ “As at the first time, ^(A)I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; ^(B)the Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you.

¹⁷ So the Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”

¹⁴ So the Lord ^(A)relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.

¹⁰ Now therefore, ^(A)let Me alone, that ^(B)My wrath may burn hot against them and I may ^[a]consume them. And ^(C)I will make of you a great nation.”

^11 (D)Then Moses pleaded with ^[b]the Lord his God, and said: “Lord, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Jesus Teaches the Fear of God^(A)

^4 (B)“And I say to you, ^(C)My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. ⁵ But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, ^(D)fear Him!

² And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said: