The fear of the LORD {is} the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do {his commandments}: his praise endureth for ever. {a good...: or, good success} {his commandments: Heb. them}

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, {and} strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD {is} his treasure. {salvation: Heb. salvations}

In the fear of the LORD {is} strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but {be thou} in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

The fear of the LORD {is} the beginning of knowledge: {but} fools despise wisdom and instruction. {the beginning: or, the principal part}

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

Also I said, It {is} not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD {men} depart from evil.

For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

But the former governors that {had been} before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual {gifts}, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. {of spiritual gifts: Gr. of spirits}

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. {Solomon: that is, Peaceable}

In whom ye also {trusted}, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

But {when} ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and {when} he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but {we do} all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

The fear of the LORD {is} to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. {to...: or, to edify profitably}

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that {is} wisdom; and to depart from evil {is} understanding.

If {there be} therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: {so do}.

He that speaketh in an {unknown} tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; {It shall} yet {come to pass}, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. {comfort: or, exhort}

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. {rest: or, keeping of a sabbath}

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.

{Is} not the LORD your God with you? and hath he {not} given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. {glorious: Heb. glory}

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given {us} everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, {ye are} God's building. {husbandry: or, tillage}

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. {ordained: or, prepared}

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

[A Song of degrees.] Blessed {is} every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard {it}, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

In the fear of the LORD {is} strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

But {there is} forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only {son} from me.

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but {be thou} in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, {of the Lord: or, in the Lord}

The fear of the LORD {tendeth} to life: and {he that hath it} shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, {so that there is} neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

{Is} not the LORD your God with you? and hath he {not} given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.

And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God {was} with him.

But as for me, I will come {into} thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: {and} in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. {thy holy...: Heb. the temple of thy holiness}

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe {nor} any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

I, {even} I, {am} he that comforteth you: who {art} thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man {that} shall die, and of the son of man {which} shall be made {as} grass;

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men {to} edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but {he that is} perverse in his ways despiseth him.

And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

{A} devout {man}, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. {so long...: Heb. all the days which} {in the land: Heb. upon the face of the land}

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I {am} the LORD your God.

Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: {for ever: Heb. all days}

And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that {they have} no covering in the cold.

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they {have} of the Jews:

Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about {them} walls, and towers, gates, and bars, {while} the land {is} yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought {him}, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.

That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:

Also I said, It {is} not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth {his} hands to vex certain of the church. {stretched...: or, began}