100 Bible Verses About Reverence

Bible verses about Reverence

Reverence, a cornerstone of faith, invites us into a deeper relationship with the Divine. Through scripture, we discover that reverence isn't merely fear, but a profound respect, awe, and love for God's holiness and power. Understanding reverence cultivates humility, guiding our actions and words to reflect His glory. By studying the Bible verses on this subject, we learn to approach God's presence with a heart prepared to listen, obey, and worship. Let these scriptures illuminate your path to a more reverent life, enriching your spiritual journey and drawing you closer to the heart of God.

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Genesis 18:23 (KJV)

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Honor God: Bible Verses on Reverence & Awe

And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

1 Kings 7:18KJV

And he lighted the lamps before the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:25KJV

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

1 Samuel 22:14KJV

And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

Isaiah 16:5KJV

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

Psalms 18:44KJV

Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

Song of Solomon 4:16KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

Exodus 7:1KJV

Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

Exodus 30:33KJV

For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

Psalms 47:7KJV

And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord:

Leviticus 2:2KJV

And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the Lord, offer it at your own will.

Leviticus 22:29KJV

And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord:

Exodus 29:23KJV

Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

Deuteronomy 15:5KJV

Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:31KJV

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

Job 37:10KJV

And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

Exodus 39:30KJV

The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 68:8KJV

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

1 Kings 18:11KJV

Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:

Numbers 29:37KJV

And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

Joshua 6:4KJV

And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:

Ezra 2:61KJV

At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.

Numbers 9:18KJV

And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son.

Genesis 24:48KJV

These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:1KJV

Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

1 Kings 18:37KJV

Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.

Leviticus 24:3KJV

Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

Exodus 15:6KJV

And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath–jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.

1 Chronicles 13:6KJV

He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

Job 37:3KJV

And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord commanded Moses.

Leviticus 16:34KJV

And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.

Exodus 30:4KJV

And they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.

Numbers 7:3KJV

And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.

Exodus 24:5KJV

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

Psalms 119:44KJV

And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the Lord.

Exodus 10:2KJV

And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.

1 Samuel 25:38KJV

Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

Deuteronomy 16:3KJV

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Exodus 29:9KJV

Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Psalms 119:161KJV

For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 1:15KJV

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

Leviticus 26:12KJV

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.

Genesis 4:3KJV

And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:

Leviticus 14:15KJV

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

Psalms 40:16KJV

But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

Psalms 109:21KJV

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Genesis 18:23KJV

And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

Leviticus 11:30KJV

Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:

1 Chronicles 27:18KJV

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

Job 41:19KJV

And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

Genesis 41:38KJV

Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

Nehemiah 12:5KJV

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.

Psalms 134:2KJV

Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

Isaiah 1:27KJV

For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

Exodus 9:15KJV

And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.

1 Chronicles 4:31KJV

Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

Isaiah 56:7KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Exodus 31:12KJV

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Psalms 48:7KJV

The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.

Psalms 68:15KJV

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Job 41:1KJV

Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

2 Kings 22:13KJV

And they cried unto the Lord, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.

1 Samuel 12:10KJV

He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

Psalms 147:9KJV

Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:22KJV

For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

Numbers 8:17KJV

Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

Psalms 119:41KJV

Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

Job 37:2KJV

And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

1 Chronicles 21:26KJV

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Psalms 2:8KJV

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

Genesis 40:12KJV

And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

Exodus 24:7KJV

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.

Psalms 33:1KJV

And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

Leviticus 14:5KJV

In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.

Numbers 18:10KJV

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

Proverbs 24:9KJV

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

Psalms 97:7KJV

And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 28:4KJV

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23:19KJV

And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart;

1 Samuel 12:20KJV

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 25:8KJV

And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,

1 Kings 8:10KJV

The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,

Isaiah 8:5KJV

And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.

Exodus 19:8KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

Leviticus 25:1KJV

He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

Exodus 22:20KJV

The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

Isaiah 23:9KJV

And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

Exodus 36:20KJV

And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.

Exodus 29:29KJV

And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:

Leviticus 15:14KJV

And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Deuteronomy 27:14KJV

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

Psalms 40:9KJV

And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

1 Samuel 7:6KJV

And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:

1 Kings 18:3KJV

And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

1 Samuel 14:51KJV

And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

2 Samuel 6:14KJV

And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

Deuteronomy 6:25KJV

When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

Proverbs 21:11KJV

So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 15:14KJV

But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

Exodus 34:34KJV

And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

Isaiah 37:1KJV

In conclusion, the Bible verses explored highlight the multifaceted nature of reverence. It encompasses awe before God's power and holiness, respect for His name and word, obedience to His commands, and loving service to others created in His image. These verses collectively reveal that reverence isn't a passive emotion but an active orientation of the heart and life toward God. It transforms our perspective, shaping our actions and relationships. Reflecting on these principles encourages a conscious cultivation of reverence in our daily lives. By anchoring ourselves in humility, gratitude, and a deep awareness of God's presence, we can continually grow in reverence, allowing it to permeate every facet of our existence, drawing us closer to Him and illuminating the path of righteousness.