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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Leviticus 19:14, 32

You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD. / You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Leviticus 25:17, 36, 43

Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God. / Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you. / You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Numbers 32:15

For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 6:13–15

Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name. / Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you. / For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 7:4

because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 8:5, 6

So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. / Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 10:12, 13, 20

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, / and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good? / You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 13:4

You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 14:23

And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 17:11–13

according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you. / But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel. / Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 19:16–20

If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime, / both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time. / The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 21:18–21

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined, / his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown, / and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 28:14–68

Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them. / If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: / You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Deuteronomy 31:11–13

when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel. / Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law. / Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Joshua 23:11–16

Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God. / For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience 1 Samuel 12:14, 15, 24, 25

If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the LORD your God, then all will be well. / But if you disobey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you as it was against your fathers. / Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Job 13:21

Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Job 31:1–4, 13–15, 23

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin? / For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high? / Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Proverbs 16:6

By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Isaiah 1:20

But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Jeremiah 22:5

But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Matthew 10:28

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Luke 12:4, 5

I tell you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. / But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after you have been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience 2 Corinthians 5:10, 11

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad. / Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience 2 Timothy 4:1, 2

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom: / Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience 2 Peter 3:10–12

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare. / Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness / as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat.

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Fear of God: A Motive of Obedience Revelation 14:9, 10

And a third angel followed them, calling out in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives its mark on his forehead or on his hand, / he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

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