How do I learn to fear God Scripturally? & 17 Biblical Reasons to Fear God!

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List of Biblical Reasons to Fear God!

How do I learn to fear God Scripturally?

God’s direction to learn to fear Him Scriptures:
➥ Deuteronomy 4:10 ESV
‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’

➥ Deuteronomy 17:18-19 ESV
18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.
19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them,

➥ Deuteronomy 31:11-13
11 when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
12 Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,
13 and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

Consider reading Deuteronomy 28 to learn the Fear of God. Many believers testify that this chapter works with installing the Fear of God.

Also consider Deuteronomy Chapters 27-32. These Chapters are God’s Blessings and Curses. Reading this will put the fear of God in you!

17 Biblical Reasons to Fear God

1. Requirement
➥ Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

2. Beginning of Wisdom & Understanding
Proverbs 1:7, 2:1-6, 9:10, Psalms 111:10

➥ Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

➥ Proverbs 2:1-6
1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

➥ Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

➥ Psalms 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

3. Name in Book of Life
➥Malachi 3:16
Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.

4. Confidence
➥ Proverbs 14:26-27
In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.

5. Eternal Gospel / Everlasting Gospel
➥Revelation 14:6-7
Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.

6. God’s Favor
➥ Psalms 147:11
But the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

7. Angelic Protection
➥ Psalms 34:7
The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

8. God’s Mercy
➥ Luke 1:50
And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.

9. Riches & Honor
➥ Proverbs 22:4
The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.

10. 7th Trumpet Reward
➥ Revelation 11:18
The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.

11. Blessings
Psalms 112:1, Psalms 115:13, Psalms 128:1-4

➥ Psalms 112:1
Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!

➥ Psalms 115:13
He will bless those who fear the LORD, both the small and the great.

➥ Psalms 128:1-4
1 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!
2 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

12. Life
Proverbs 14:27; 19:23, 22:4

➥ Proverbs 14:27
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.

➥ Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the LORD leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.

➥ Proverbs 22:4
The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.

13. Survive Famine
Psalms 33:18-19, Psalms 111:5, Deuteronomy 6:24

➥ Psalms 33:18-19
Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,
19 that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine.

➥ Psalms 111:5
He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.

➥ Deuteronomy 6:24
And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.

14. Turns away from Evil
Job 1:1,8; 2:3

➥ Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

➥ Job 1:8
And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?

➥ Job 2:3
And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.

15. No Want or Lack
➥ Psalms 34:9
Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack!

16. Healing when Jesus Returns
➥ Malachi 4:2-3
But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts.

17. Learning to Fear God
Proverbs 2:1-6, Deuteronomy 4:10, Deuteronomy 17:19, Deuteronomy 31:12-13

➥ Proverbs 2:1-6
1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

➥ Deuteronomy 4:10
How on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.

➥ Deuteronomy 17:19
And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them.

➥ Deuteronomy 31:12-13
Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.

Biblical Reasons to Fear God!

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