Benefits of fearing God

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Psalm 34:9–10 “Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him. The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.”

Proverbs 10:27 “The fear of the Lord prolongs days, But the years of the wicked will be shortened.”

Ecclesiastes 12:13 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.”

Proverbs 19:23 “The fear of the Lord leads to life, And he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.”

Proverbs 16:6 “In mercy and truth Atonement is provided for iniquity; And by the fear of the Lord one departs from evil.”

Deuteronomy 6:24 “And the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day.”

Psalm 115:13 “He will bless those who fear the Lord, Both small and great.”

Proverbs 31:30 “Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.”

Psalm 145:19 “He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them.”

Ecclesiastes 8:12–13 “Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.”

Job 1:1 “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.”

Proverbs 29:25 “The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.”

Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything. Richard Christian Halverson Martin Manser, ed., Christian Quotations (Martin Manser, 2016).

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man. John Witherspoon Martin Manser, ed., Christian Quotations (Martin Manser, 2016).