Bible Verses AboutReverence
Bible verses about Reverence
Reverence, a cornerstone of faith, invites us into a deeper relationship with the Divine. Through scripture, we discover that reverence isn't merely fear, but a profound respect, awe, and love for God's holiness and power. Understanding reverence cultivates humility, guiding our actions and words to reflect His glory. By studying the Bible verses on this subject, we learn to approach God's presence with a heart prepared to listen, obey, and worship. Let these scriptures illuminate your path to a more reverent life, enriching your spiritual journey and drawing you closer to the heart of God.
Most Helpful Verses
Begin with these carefully selected verses that address this topic most directly.
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;
And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
Scripture Passages
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;
And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
And there shalt thou build an altar unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord.
And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of bright brass.
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.
And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,
And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
Of the sons of Pahath–moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man.
And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah.
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the Lord commanded Moses.
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth–el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.
Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.
Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.
Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.
They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;
O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.
And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.
And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering.
Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.
And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire.
And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.
And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house,
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise.
Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath–jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the Lord, and he answered them.
Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.
And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the Lord, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal–peor: for all the men that followed Baal–peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh.
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.
And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
And Elijah said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
Reflection
Contemplating Reverence
In conclusion, the Bible verses explored highlight the multifaceted nature of reverence. It encompasses awe before God's power and holiness, respect for His name and word, obedience to His commands, and loving service to others created in His image. These verses collectively reveal that reverence isn't a passive emotion but an active orientation of the heart and life toward God. It transforms our perspective, shaping our actions and relationships. Reflecting on these principles encourages a conscious cultivation of reverence in our daily lives. By anchoring ourselves in humility, gratitude, and a deep awareness of God's presence, we can continually grow in reverence, allowing it to permeate every facet of our existence, drawing us closer to Him and illuminating the path of righteousness.
May these verses about reverence bring wisdom and guidance to your spiritual journey
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