What Does the Bible Say?

Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.

Ashkelon will see and fear;Gaza will writhe in agony,as will Ekron,for her hope will wither.There will cease to be a king in Gaza,and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

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.

When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost!” they said, and cried out in fear.

The guards trembled in fear of him and became like dead men.

So they hurried away from the tomb in fear and great joy, and ran to tell His disciples.

Overwhelmed with fear, they asked one another, “Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”

Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him trembling in fear, and she told Him the whole truth.

because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man. When he heard John’s words, he was greatly perplexed; yet he listened to him gladly.

At this, the leaders sought to arrest Jesus, for they knew that He had spoken this parable against them. But fearing the crowd, they left Him and went away.

So the women left the tomb and ran away, trembling and bewildered. And in their fear they did not say a word to anyone.

When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and gripped with fear.

His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.

deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to depart from them, because great fear had taken hold of them. So He got into the boat and started back.

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!

“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.

For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

Men will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.