Exodus 20:20
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20 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, for God has come only to test you and to put the fear of him upon you so that you do not sin.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 13:3
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3 you must not heed the words of those prophets or those who divine by dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you indeed love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.(A)
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Proverbs 3:7
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7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord and turn away from evil.(A)
1 Samuel 12:20
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20 And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart,
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Isaiah 8:13
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13 But the Lord of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.(A)
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Proverbs 16:6
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6 By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the Lord one avoids evil.(A)
Deuteronomy 8:2
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2 Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.(A)
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Genesis 22:1
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The Command to Sacrifice Isaac
22 After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
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Isaiah 41:10
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10 do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be afraid, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you; I will help you;
I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.(A)
Proverbs 1:7
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7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.(A)
Job 28:28
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28 And he said to humankind,
‘Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
and to depart from evil is understanding.’ ”(A)
Nehemiah 5:15
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15 The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.(A)
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Joshua 24:14
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14 “Now, therefore, revere the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt and serve the Lord.(A)
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Deuteronomy 10:12
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The Essence of the Law
12 “So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,(A)
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Deuteronomy 6:2
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2 so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long.(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:10
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10 how you once stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people for me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me as long as they live on the earth and may teach their children so’;(A)
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Exodus 15:25-26
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25 He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood; he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
There the Lord[a] made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he put them to the test.(A) 26 He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not bring upon you any of the diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you.”(B)
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Genesis 22:12
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12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”(A)
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Genesis 20:11
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11 Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.(A)
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