Exodus 1:17

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded; but saved the men children.

Cross References

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men.

Exodus 1:21

And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.

Luke 12:5

But I will shew you whom you shall fear: fear ye him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear him.

Matthew 10:28

And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is all man:

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face.

Genesis 42:18

And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live; for I fear God.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord hateth evil: I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable to the people; and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.

Micah 6:16

For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according to their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place; and they will kill me for the sake of my wife.

Exodus 1:18

And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?

1 Samuel 22:17

And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord. For their hand is with David: because they knew that he was fled; and they told it not to me. And the king's servants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord.

2 Samuel 24:4

But the king's words prevailed over the words of Joab, and of the captains of the army. And Joab, and the captains of the soldiers went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.