18 On the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:(A)

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18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

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15 But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels[a] of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God(A) I did not act like that.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 5:15 That is, about 1 pound or about 460 grams

15 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.

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23 For I dreaded destruction from God,(A)
    and for fear of his splendor(B) I could not do such things.(C)

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23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

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Psalm 36[a]

For the director of music. Of David the servant of the Lord.

I have a message from God in my heart
    concerning the sinfulness of the wicked:[b](A)
There is no fear(B) of God
    before their eyes.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 36:1 In Hebrew texts 36:1-12 is numbered 36:2-13.
  2. Psalm 36:1 Or A message from God: The transgression of the wicked / resides in their hearts.

36 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

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Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for;
    through the fear of the Lord(A) evil is avoided.(B)

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

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