Genesis 20:11

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Avraham said, *Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

Cross References

Genesis 12:12

It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

Genesis 20:10

Avimelekh said to Avraham, *What did you see, that you have done this thing?*

Genesis 20:12

Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Genesis 22:12

He said, *Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.*

Genesis 26:7

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, *She is my sister,* for he was afraid to say, *My wife,* lest, he thought, *the men of the place might kill me for Rivka, because she is beautiful to look at.*

Genesis 42:18

Yosef said to them the third day, *Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of `Utz, whose name was Iyov. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Job 28:28

To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'*

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on the LORD?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Proverbs 2:5

then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Romans 3:18

*There is no fear of God before their eyes.*