Fear GOD or Love GOD

Click here to listen to this audio recording, based on the Word of GOD, now!

Scriptures Referenced

Proverbs 1:7  New King James Version (NKJV)

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
=============================================================================

Luke 12:4-5  New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

Exhortation to Fearless Confession

⁴ “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.
⁵ But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority^[a] to cast into hell.^[b] Yes, I tell you, fear him!
===============================================================================================

1 John 3:8-9  New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

⁸ Everyone who commits sin is a child of the devil; for the devil has been sinning from the beginning.
The Son of God was revealed for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
⁹ Those who have been born of God do not sin
, because God’s seed abides in them;^[a] they cannot sin, because they have been born of God.
=============================================

1 John 3:8-9  Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

⁸ [But] he who commits sin [who practices evildoing] is of the devil [takes his character from the evil one],
for the devil has sinned (violated the divine law) from the beginning.
The reason the Son of God was made manifest (visible) was to undo (destroy, loosen, and dissolve) the works the devil [has done].

⁹ No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and ^[a]habitually] practices sin,
for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him];
and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God.
==================================================================================================

Hebrews 10:26-27  Amplified Bible (AMP)

Christ or Judgment

²⁶ For if we go on willfully and deliberately sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth,
there no longer remains a sacrifice [to atone] for our sins [that is, no further offering to anticipate],
²⁷ but a kind of awful and terrifying expectation of [divine] judgment and
the fury of a fire and burning wrath
 which will consume the adversaries [those who put themselves in opposition to God

============================================

James 4:6  New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,

“God opposes the proud,
 but gives grace to the humble.”

============================================

2 Corinthians 13:5  Amplified Bible (AMP)

⁵ Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith
and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves

Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?

============================================

Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)

³ For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

============================================

1 Corinthians 8:2  Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

² Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.

============================================
Luke 10:26-28  New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE

²⁶ He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 
²⁷ He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
²⁸ And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”