The fear and terror of you will be in every living creature on the earth, every bird of the sky, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are placed under your authority.

Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘There is absolutely no fear of God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and he issued his verdict last night.”

The God of Abraham, and the gods of Nahor—the gods of their father—will judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

On the third day Joseph said to them, “I fear God—do this and you will live.

The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

Since the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the Lord made their servants and livestock flee to shelters,

But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the Lord God.”

When Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and believed in him and in his servant Moses.

But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating dishonest profit. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

Moses responded to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear him and will not sin.”

Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you are to fear your God; I am the Lord.

“You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old. Fear your God; I am the Lord.

You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

You are not to rule over them harshly but fear your God.

But the Lord said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

Today I will begin to put the fear and dread of you on the peoples everywhere under heaven. They will hear the report about you, tremble, and be in anguish because of you.’

But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.’

The day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people before me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’

If only they had such a heart to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that they and their children would prosper forever.

Do this so that you may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life by keeping all his statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.

Fear the Lord your God, worship him, and take your oaths in his name.