Genesis 22:12
And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
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Genesis 20:11And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.
Genesis 26:5Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.
Exodus 20:20And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin.
1 Samuel 15:22And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.
Job 5:19He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.
Psalms 1:6Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 22:12-15
Isaac Rescued. ( b. c. 1872.) 11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the… Read the whole commentary →