FEAR

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 3:8

  They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

• Genesis 3:9

  Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

• Genesis 3:10

  The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

• Genesis 3:11

  God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

• Genesis 3:12

  The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

• Genesis 3:13

  Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

• Genesis 22:12

  He said, “Don’t 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.”

• Genesis 28:16

  Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”

• Genesis 28:17

  He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”

• Genesis 35:5

  They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

• Genesis 42:18

  Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

• Exodus 1:17

  But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

• Exodus 1:21

  Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

• Exodus 3:5

  He said, “Don’t come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”

• Exodus 9:20

  Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.

• Exodus 18:21

  Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

• Exodus 19:12

  You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.

• Exodus 19:13

  No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.”

• Exodus 20:18

  All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

• Exodus 20:19

  They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”

• Exodus 20:20

  Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”

• Leviticus 19:14

  “‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 19:32

  “‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 22:32

  You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,

• Leviticus 25:17

  You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 25:36

  Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

• Leviticus 25:43

  You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

• Numbers 25:6

  Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Numbers 25:7

  When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.

• Numbers 25:8

  He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

• Numbers 25:9

  Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

• Numbers 25:10

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 25:11

  “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

• Numbers 25:12

  Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.

• Numbers 25:13

  It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’”

• Numbers 25:14

  Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.

• Numbers 25:15

  The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.

• Numbers 32:15

  For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”

• Deuteronomy 4:10

  the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

• Deuteronomy 5:29

  Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

• Deuteronomy 6:2

  that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you; you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

• Deuteronomy 6:13

  You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

• Deuteronomy 6:14

  You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;

• Deuteronomy 6:15

  for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

• Deuteronomy 7:4

  For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

• Deuteronomy 8:5

  You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

• Deuteronomy 8:6

  You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

• Deuteronomy 10:12

  Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

• Deuteronomy 10:13

  to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?

• Deuteronomy 10:20

  You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

• Deuteronomy 10:21

  He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.

• Deuteronomy 13:4

  You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.

• Deuteronomy 13:6

  If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

• Deuteronomy 13:7

  of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

• Deuteronomy 13:8

  you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;

• Deuteronomy 13:9

  but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

• Deuteronomy 13:10

  You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

• Deuteronomy 13:11

  All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.

• Deuteronomy 14:23

  You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.

• Deuteronomy 15:9

  Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

• Deuteronomy 17:11

  according to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

• Deuteronomy 17:12

  The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

• Deuteronomy 17:13

  All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

• Deuteronomy 19:16

  If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

• Deuteronomy 19:17

  then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

• Deuteronomy 19:18

  and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

• Deuteronomy 19:19

  then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 19:20

  Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.

• Deuteronomy 21:18

  If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

• Deuteronomy 21:19

  then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.

• Deuteronomy 21:20

  They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

• Deuteronomy 21:21

  All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

• Deuteronomy 28:14

  and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

• Deuteronomy 28:15

  But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.

• Deuteronomy 28:16

  You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.

• Deuteronomy 28:17

  Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

• Deuteronomy 28:18

  The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.

• Deuteronomy 28:19

  You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.

• Deuteronomy 28:20

  Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

• Deuteronomy 28:21

  Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 28:22

  Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.

• Deuteronomy 28:23

  Your sky that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.

• Deuteronomy 28:24

  Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 28:25

  Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

• Deuteronomy 28:26

  Your dead body will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.

• Deuteronomy 28:27

  Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

• Deuteronomy 28:28

  Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.

• Deuteronomy 28:29

  You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

• Deuteronomy 28:30

  You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.

• Deuteronomy 28:31

  Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

• Deuteronomy 28:32

  Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

• Deuteronomy 28:33

  A nation which you don’t know eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always;

• Deuteronomy 28:34

  so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.

• Deuteronomy 28:35

  Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

• Deuteronomy 28:36

  Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.

• Deuteronomy 28:37

  You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.

• Deuteronomy 28:38

  You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in; for the locust will consume it.

• Deuteronomy 28:39

  You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.

• Deuteronomy 28:40

  You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives will drop off.

• Deuteronomy 28:41

  You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go into captivity.

• Deuteronomy 28:42

  Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.

• Deuteronomy 28:43

  The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.

• Deuteronomy 28:44

  He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

• Deuteronomy 28:45

  All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 28:46

  They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.

• Deuteronomy 28:47

  Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

• Deuteronomy 28:48

  therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you.

• Deuteronomy 28:49

  Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you will not understand;

• Deuteronomy 28:50

  a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young,

• Deuteronomy 28:58

  If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;

• Joshua 4:24

  that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’”

• Joshua 22:15

  They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

• Joshua 22:16

  “Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?

• Joshua 22:17

  Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

• Joshua 22:18

  that you must turn away today from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

• Joshua 22:19

  However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than Yahweh our God’s altar.

• Joshua 22:20

  Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’”

• Joshua 24:14

  “Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 2:30

  “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.

• 1 Samuel 12:14

  If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.

• 1 Samuel 12:24

  Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

• 2 Samuel 23:3

  The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

• 1 Kings 8:40

  that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

• 1 Kings 18:3

  Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

• 1 Kings 18:4

  for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

• 2 Kings 17:28

  So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 17:36

  but you shall fear Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him.

• 2 Kings 17:39

  But you shall fear Yahweh your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”

• 1 Chronicles 16:30

  Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved.

• 2 Chronicles 19:7

  Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

• 2 Chronicles 19:9

  He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

• 2 Chronicles 20:3

  Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

• Ezra 10:3

  Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

• Nehemiah 5:9

  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

• Nehemiah 5:15

  But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

• Nehemiah 7:2

  I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

• Job 1:8

  Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

• Job 5:20

  In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

• Job 5:21

  You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

• Job 5:22

  At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

• Job 5:23

  For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

• Job 5:24

  You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

• Job 5:25

  You shall know also that your offspring shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

• Job 18:11

  Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

• Job 28:28

  To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”

• Job 37:24

  Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

• Psalms 2:11

  Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

• Psalms 4:4

  Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

• Psalms 5:7

  But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

• Psalms 15:4

  In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

• Psalms 19:9

  The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

• Psalms 22:23

  You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!

• Psalms 22:25

  Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

• Psalms 25:12

  What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

• Psalms 25:13

  His soul shall dwell at ease. His offspring shall inherit the land.

• Psalms 25:14

  The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

• Psalms 31:19

  Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

• Psalms 33:8

  Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

• Psalms 33:18

  Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;

• Psalms 34:7

  Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

• Psalms 34:9

  Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

• Psalms 46:10

  “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

• Psalms 52:6

  The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

• Psalms 60:4

  You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

• Psalms 64:9

  All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

• Psalms 66:16

  Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

• Psalms 67:7

  God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.

• Psalms 72:5

  They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

• Psalms 76:7

  You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

• Psalms 85:9

  Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

• Psalms 86:11

  Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

• Psalms 89:7

  a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

• Psalms 90:11

  Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

• Psalms 96:4

  For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.

• Psalms 96:9

  Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.

• Psalms 99:1

  Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.

• Psalms 102:15

  So the nations will fear Yahweh’s name; all the kings of the earth your glory.

• Psalms 103:11

  For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

• Psalms 103:17

  But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

• Psalms 111:5

  He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.

• Psalms 111:10

  The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

• Psalms 112:1

  Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

• Psalms 115:11

  You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.

• Psalms 115:13

  He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.

• Psalms 118:4

  Now let those who fear Yahweh say that his loving kindness endures forever.

• Psalms 119:38

  Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.

• Psalms 119:63

  I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

• Psalms 119:74

  Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

• Psalms 119:79

  Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes.

• Psalms 128:1

  A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

• Psalms 128:4

  Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.

• Psalms 130:4

  But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

• Psalms 135:20

  House of Levi, praise Yahweh! You who fear Yahweh, praise Yahweh!

• Psalms 145:19

  He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

• Psalms 147:11

  Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

• Proverbs 1:7

  The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

• Proverbs 1:24

  Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

• Proverbs 1:25

  but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

• Proverbs 1:26

  I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

• Proverbs 1:27

  when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

• Proverbs 2:5

  then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

• Proverbs 3:7

  Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

• Proverbs 8:13

  The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

• Proverbs 9:10

  The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

• Proverbs 10:24

  What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

• Proverbs 10:27

  The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

• Proverbs 13:13

  Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

• Proverbs 14:2

  He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

• Proverbs 14:16

  A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

• Proverbs 14:26

  In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

• Proverbs 14:27

  The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

• Proverbs 15:16

  Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.

• Proverbs 15:33

  The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

• Proverbs 16:6

  By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

• Proverbs 19:23

  The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

• Proverbs 22:4

  The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

• Proverbs 23:17

  Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

• Proverbs 24:21

  My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious:

• Proverbs 28:14

  Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

• Proverbs 31:30

  Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

• Ecclesiastes 3:14

  I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

• Ecclesiastes 5:7

  For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.

• Ecclesiastes 7:18

  It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don’t withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come out of them all.

• Ecclesiastes 8:12

  Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

• Ecclesiastes 12:13

  This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

• Isaiah 2:10

  Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.

• Isaiah 2:19

  Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

• Isaiah 2:20

  In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

• Isaiah 2:21

  To go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

• Isaiah 3:5

  The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

• Isaiah 8:13

  Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

• Isaiah 25:3

  Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

• Isaiah 29:13

  The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

• Isaiah 29:23

  But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

• Isaiah 33:6

  There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

• Isaiah 33:13

  Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”

• Isaiah 50:10

  Who among you fears Yahweh, and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

• Isaiah 59:19

  So shall they fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which Yahweh’s breath drives.

• Isaiah 60:5

  Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.

• Jeremiah 5:22

  Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail; though they roar, yet they can’t pass over it.’

• Jeremiah 10:7

  Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.

• Jeremiah 26:19

  Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”

• Jeremiah 32:39

  and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:

• Jeremiah 32:40

  and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

• Jeremiah 33:9

  This city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.’”

• Daniel 5:6

  Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

• Jonah 1:9

  He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

• Micah 7:16

  The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

• Micah 7:17

  They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

• Zephaniah 1:7

  Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

• Zephaniah 3:7

  I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.” But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

• Haggai 1:5

  Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

• Haggai 1:12

  Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.

• Zechariah 2:13

  Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

• Malachi 1:6

  “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

• Malachi 3:16

  Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

• Malachi 4:2

  But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

• Matthew 10:28

  Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

• Matthew 27:3

  Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

• Matthew 27:4

  saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

• Matthew 27:5

  He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

• Matthew 28:4

  For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

• Matthew 28:8

  They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.

• Luke 1:50

  His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

• Luke 12:5

  But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

• Luke 23:40

  But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

• Acts 10:2

  a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

• Acts 10:35

  but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

• Acts 13:16

  Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

• Acts 13:26

  Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

• Romans 11:20

  True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

• 2 Corinthians 7:1

  Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

• Ephesians 5:21

  subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

• Ephesians 6:5

  Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

• Philippians 2:12

  So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

• Colossians 3:22

  Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

• Hebrews 5:5

  So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”

• Hebrews 5:7

  He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

• Hebrews 11:7

  By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

• Hebrews 12:18

  For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

• Hebrews 12:19

  the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

• Hebrews 12:20

  for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”;

• Hebrews 12:21

  and so fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”

• Hebrews 12:22

  But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

• Hebrews 12:23

  to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

• Hebrews 12:24

  to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

• Hebrews 12:28

  Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

• Hebrews 12:29

  for our God is a consuming fire.

• James 2:19

  You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

• 1 Peter 1:17

  If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

• 1 Peter 2:17

  Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

• 1 Peter 2:18

  Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

• 1 Peter 3:2

  seeing your pure behavior in fear.

• 1 Peter 3:15

  But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

• 1 John 4:16

  We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

• 1 John 4:17

  In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

• 1 John 4:18

  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

• Revelation 11:18

  The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

• Revelation 14:7

  He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

• Revelation 19:5

  A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”