¹⁸ On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:^(A)

⁴³ You shall not rule over them with harshness but shall fear your God.^(A)

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)

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)

⁴ For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone,

² He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people.

⁹ So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God, to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?^(A)