Leviticus 25:17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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.

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

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

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.

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

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

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

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

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.”

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

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.”

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

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

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

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

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

For there is no partiality with God.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

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.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

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

You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

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

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

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.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

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,

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;

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.”

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

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

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.”

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

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

“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

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

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.”

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?

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.

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

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

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

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.

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

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.