Ecclesiastes 7:18

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

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

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,

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

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

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

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.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

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

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

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?

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.

They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley.” He said, “Don’t send them.”

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

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

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

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

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

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

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

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

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

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

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

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

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.

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.

Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

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

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.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

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

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

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

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

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.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

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

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.

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

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.