2 Corinthians 5:11
Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.
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Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Job 31:23For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
Psalms 76:7You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
Psalms 90:11Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
Matthew 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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 →