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a God feared in the council of the holy ones,
    great and awesome[a] above all who are around him?(A)

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  1. 89.7 Gk Syr: Heb greatly awesome

For the Lord, the Most High, is awesome,
    a great king over all the earth.(A)

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But you indeed are awesome!
    Who can stand before you
    when your anger is roused?(A)
From the heavens you uttered judgment;
    the earth feared and was still(B)
when God rose up to establish judgment,
    to save all the oppressed of the earth. Selah(C)

10 Human wrath serves only to praise you,
    when you bind the last bit of your[a] wrath around you.(D)
11 Make vows to the Lord your God and perform them;
    let all who are around him bring gifts
    to the one who is awesome,(E)

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  1. 76.10 Heb lacks your

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb:

“Great and amazing are your deeds,
    Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
    King of the nations![a](A)
Lord, who will not fear
    and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
    All nations will come
    and worship before you,
for your judgments have been revealed.”(B)

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  1. 15.3 Other ancient authorities read the ages

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe, 29 for indeed our God is a consuming fire.(A)

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11 And great fear seized the whole church and all who heard of these things.(A)

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Exhortation to Fearless Confession

“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body and after that can do nothing more.(A) But I will show you whom to fear: fear the one who, after killing, has authority[a] to cast into hell.[b] Yes, I tell you, fear that one!(B)

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  1. 12.5 Or power
  2. 12.5 Gk Gehenna

10 But the Lord is the true God;
    he is the living God and the everlasting King.
At his wrath the earth quakes,
    and the nations cannot endure his indignation.[a](A)

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  1. 10.10 Q ms Gk lack 10.10

Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?
    For that is your due;
among all the wise ones of the nations
    and in all their kingdoms
    there is no one like you.(A)

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Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.(A) And one called to another and said,

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory.”(B)

The pivots[a] on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”(C)

Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. The seraph[b] touched my mouth with it and said, “Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.”(D)

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  1. 6.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 6.7 Heb He

28 Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell.[a]

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  1. 10.28 Gk Gehenna

All these things my hand has made,
    so all these things are mine,[a]
            says the Lord.
But this is the one to whom I will look,
    to the humble and contrite in spirit
    who trembles at my word.(A)

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  1. 66.2 Gk Syr: Heb these things came to be

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said,

‘Through those who are near me
    I will show myself holy,
and before all the people
    I will be glorified.’ ”

And Aaron was silent.(A)

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