100 Bible Verses About Fear of God

Bible verses about Fear of God

Delving into scripture to understand the "Fear of God" is not about cowering in terror, but recognizing His awe-inspiring power, wisdom, and holiness. It's a reverence that births wisdom, humility, and ultimately, a deeper love and trust in the Almighty. These verses illuminate the profound respect due to our Creator, a respect that guides our actions, purifies our hearts, and aligns our lives with His divine purpose. As we explore these passages, may we find ourselves drawn closer to God, walking in obedience and experiencing the abundant blessings that flow from a heart rightly postured before Him.

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Numbers 7:45 (KJV)

One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

Honor & Awe: Bible Verses on Fear of God

Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

Job 22:4KJV

And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

Exodus 23:13KJV

And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.

Leviticus 8:14KJV

He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.

Leviticus 16:4KJV

God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Psalms 67:7KJV

And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

Leviticus 11:13KJV

Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.

1 Samuel 5:10KJV

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

Deuteronomy 10:20KJV

Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

Job 36:5KJV

His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

Psalms 97:4KJV

That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 22:8KJV

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

Exodus 1:22KJV

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

Psalms 97:7KJV

And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.

Leviticus 16:25KJV

But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:15KJV

And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Genesis 28:17KJV

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.

Jeremiah 4:13KJV

And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

Judges 13:22KJV

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Leviticus 26:22KJV

In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

Leviticus 7:2KJV

Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Exodus 15:11KJV

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

Psalms 88:16KJV

According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

Deuteronomy 18:16KJV

But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 21:30KJV

I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

Deuteronomy 26:14KJV

If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

Deuteronomy 28:58KJV

And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 15:21KJV

And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

Deuteronomy 28:26KJV

Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

Exodus 13:7KJV

He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

Psalms 105:7KJV

Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

Numbers 17:13KJV

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

Leviticus 25:43KJV

And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

2 Samuel 22:12KJV

And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Joshua 9:24KJV

Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

Deuteronomy 4:10KJV

And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

1 Kings 18:11KJV

Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Deuteronomy 5:32KJV

And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the Lord, before the vail of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 4:6KJV

Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.

Exodus 30:9KJV

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

Ecclesiastes 5:6KJV

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

Psalms 119:74KJV

Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Isaiah 30:11KJV

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Leviticus 25:36KJV

Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

Leviticus 22:23KJV

And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

Exodus 9:23KJV

Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 13:6KJV

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 8:13KJV

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Psalms 120:4KJV

All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.

Numbers 7:87KJV

Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?

Leviticus 10:17KJV

He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

Psalms 76:12KJV

Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

Isaiah 25:3KJV

For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

Proverbs 24:22KJV

One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.

Numbers 29:11KJV

He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

Exodus 9:20KJV

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 12:13KJV

And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the Lord, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Leviticus 4:18KJV

He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

Psalms 105:32KJV

And there came a fire out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

Leviticus 9:24KJV

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 6:5KJV

And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 16:5KJV

And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

Deuteronomy 5:23KJV

And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

Joshua 5:1KJV

And they laid the ark of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

1 Samuel 6:11KJV

And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

Deuteronomy 4:12KJV

At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

Psalms 104:7KJV

And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face.

Judges 6:22KJV

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

Leviticus 18:26KJV

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

Numbers 7:46KJV

And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Isaiah 13:8KJV

Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:4KJV

And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

Leviticus 16:8KJV

Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

1 Chronicles 16:22KJV

And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

Exodus 29:36KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.

Exodus 19:21KJV

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Psalms 60:4KJV

And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

Numbers 23:25KJV

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Psalms 90:7KJV

And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.

Exodus 29:16KJV

He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Numbers 6:7KJV

One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

Numbers 7:33KJV

And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.

Numbers 15:5KJV

And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

Exodus 34:30KJV

And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

Exodus 26:34KJV

Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Psalms 144:5KJV

And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

Exodus 19:12KJV

One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

Numbers 7:45KJV

And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.

Exodus 29:10KJV

Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

Leviticus 21:17KJV

But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the Lord God.

Exodus 9:30KJV

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:13KJV

The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Proverbs 25:3KJV

And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

Isaiah 6:4KJV

Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

Numbers 14:15KJV

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 2:15KJV

And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

Job 1:8KJV

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

Psalms 81:8KJV

If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

Leviticus 22:12KJV

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

Psalms 103:11KJV

Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Jeremiah 5:22KJV

The collection of Bible verses exploring the "fear of God" reveals a profound and multifaceted concept, extending far beyond simple terror. It encompasses reverence, awe, respect, obedience, and a deep understanding of God's power, holiness, and justice. These scriptures emphasize that fearing God is not meant to paralyze us but to guide us toward wisdom, righteousness, and a life lived in accordance with His will. It acts as a moral compass, shaping our choices and influencing our relationships. Reflecting upon these verses calls us to examine our own hearts, asking whether our actions reflect a genuine reverence for God. May we cultivate this fear, not as a source of anxiety, but as a pathway to a deeper, more meaningful relationship with the Almighty, ultimately leading to blessing, protection, and eternal life.