2 Corinthians 5:11
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men; but to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences we are manifest.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
Job 31:23For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.
Psalms 76:7At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.
Psalms 90:11Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear
Nahum 1:6Who can stand before the face of his indignation? and who shall resist in the fierceness of his anger? his indignation is poured out like fire: and the rocks are melted by him.
Matthew 25:46And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:2-12
The Believer's Prospect beyond Death. ( a. d. 57.) 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up… Read the whole commentary →