What Does the Bible Say About Reverence?

Hebrews 12:28 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,

Exodus 3:5 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

1 Samuel 12:24 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.

Hebrews 5:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

Proverbs 16:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes

By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.

1 Samuel 12:14 ESV / 17 helpful votes

If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well.

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 16 helpful votes

“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Luke 12:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

1 John 4:16-18 ESV / 11 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

2 Samuel 1:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?”

James 5:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Isaiah 29:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,

Revelation 14:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

He also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

Revelation 14:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Jude 1:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Isaiah 33:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is Zion's treasure.

Revelation 19:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And from the throne came a voice saying, “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

2 Peter 3:10-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!

1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When they see your respectful and pure conduct.

1 Peter 2:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.

Hebrews 12:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 12:18-24 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, ...

John 1:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Isaiah 45:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

Isaiah 29:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Psalm 103:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

Psalm 89:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?

1 Peter 1:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

James 2:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 5:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”;

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Philippians 2:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor such men,

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

Isaiah 33:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:79 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let those who fear you turn to me, that they may know your testimonies.

Exodus 18:1-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her home, along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”), and the name of the other, Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”). Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God. ...

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 14:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,

2 Peter 2:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

2 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

1 Thessalonians 5:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

1 Thessalonians 5:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,

Colossians 3:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Ephesians 6:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

2 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Acts 10:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Luke 23:40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

Luke 1:50 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.

Malachi 1:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Jeremiah 22:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

Jeremiah 5:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.

Proverbs 28:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

Proverbs 19:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.

Proverbs 1:24-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

Psalm 66:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Job 5:20-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing. ...

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 16:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men.

Romans 11:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 28:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They also honored us greatly, and when we were about to sail, they put on board whatever we needed.

Acts 13:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

Acts 13:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Luke 12:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

Matthew 28:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.

Matthew 28:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men.

Matthew 27:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

Zechariah 2:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

Haggai 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Haggai 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.

Zephaniah 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.

Zephaniah 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be silent before the Lord God! For the day of the Lord is near; the Lord has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests.

Micah 7:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.

Micah 7:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;

Jonah 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

Daniel 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

Jeremiah 33:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.

Jeremiah 32:40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.

Jeremiah 32:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 26:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.”

Jeremiah 10:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.

Jeremiah 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.”

Isaiah 60:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 59:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the Lord drives.

Isaiah 50:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.

Isaiah 45:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

Isaiah 25:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

Isaiah 8:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Isaiah 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.

Isaiah 2:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 8:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 7:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Proverbs 24:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise,

Proverbs 23:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.

Proverbs 22:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.

Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 15:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.

Proverbs 14:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.

Proverbs 14:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.

Proverbs 14:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.

Proverbs 14:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.

Proverbs 13:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.

Proverbs 10:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

Proverbs 10:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Proverbs 2:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Psalm 147:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

Psalm 145:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.

Psalm 135:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

O house of Levi, bless the Lord! You who fear the Lord, bless the Lord!

Psalm 130:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.

Psalm 128:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.

Psalm 128:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!

Psalm 119:74 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in your word.

Psalm 119:63 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts.

Psalm 119:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 118:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.”

Psalm 115:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 115:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 112:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Psalm 111:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.

Psalm 102:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.

Psalm 96:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth!

Psalm 96:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.

Psalm 86:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

Psalm 85:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 76:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But you, you are to be feared! Who can stand before you when once your anger is roused?

Psalm 72:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!

Psalm 67:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!

Psalm 64:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then all mankind fears; they tell what God has brought about and ponder what he has done.

Psalm 60:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You have set up a banner for those who fear you, that they may flee to it from the bow. Selah

Psalm 52:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack!

Psalm 34:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Psalm 33:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,

Psalm 33:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!

Psalm 31:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!

Psalm 25:12-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose. His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land. The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

Psalm 22:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.

Psalm 22:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!

Psalm 19:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.

Psalm 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;

Psalm 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.

Psalm 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Psalm 2:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Job 37:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”

Job 32:4-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he. And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger. And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you. I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’

Job 31:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

Job 31:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 31:1-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high? Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity? Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?

Job 28:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

Job 18:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

Job 13:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.

Job 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”

Nehemiah 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.

Nehemiah 5:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Ezra 10:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.

2 Chronicles 20:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

2 Chronicles 19:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:

2 Chronicles 19:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”

1 Chronicles 16:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

2 Kings 17:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

2 Kings 17:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 Kings 18:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 18:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly,

1 Kings 8:40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

2 Samuel 23:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,

2 Samuel 16:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

1 Samuel 26:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.”

1 Samuel 26:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?”

1 Samuel 24:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord's anointed.”

Acts 10:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.

John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Malachi 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.

Isaiah 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Ecclesiastes 10:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

Ecclesiastes 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.

Psalm 103:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

Psalm 99:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!

200 Bible Verses about Reverence