1 Samuel 12:24

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

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

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

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

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

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

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

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

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

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

“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

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

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

“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.

But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

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.

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law,

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.

Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

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

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

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

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

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

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

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

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

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.

They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

for our God is a consuming fire.

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

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.”

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

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

David said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”

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

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

that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

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

Land, don’t be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.