"But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive."
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And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
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.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt had said to them, but saved the male children alive.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male-children alive.
But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt hath spoken unto them, and keep the lads alive;