The Wrath of God-

 

ISAIAH 26:21- FOR BEHOLD, THE LORD IS COMING OUT FROM HIS PLACE TO PUNISH THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH FOR THEIR INIQUITY, AND THE EARTH WILL DISCLOSE THE BLOOD SHED ON IT, AND WILL NO MORE COVER ITS SLAIN. 

 

NAHUM 1:2-6- THE LORD IS A JEALOUS AND AVENGING GOD; THE LORD IS AVENGING AND WRATHFUL; THE LORD TAKES VENGEANCE ON HIS ADVERSARIES AND KEEPS WRATH FOR HIS ENEMIES.  THE LORD IS SLOW TO ANGER AND GREAT IN POWER, AND THE LORD WILL BY NO MEANS CLEAR THE GUILTY.  HIS WAY IS IN WHIRLWIND AND STORM, AND THE CLOUDS ARE THE DUST OF HIS FEET.  HE REBUKES THE SEA AND MAKES IT DRY; HE DRIES UP ALL THE RIVERS; BASHAN AND CARMEL WITHER; THE BLOOMS OF LEBANON WITHERS.  THE MOUNTAINS QUAKE BEFORE HIM, THE WORLD AND ALL WHO DWELL IN IT.  WHO CAN STAND HIS INDIGNATION?  WHO CAN ENDURE THE HEAT OF HIS ANGER?  HIS WRATH IS POURED OUT LIKE FIRE, AND THE ROCKS ARE BROKEN INTO PIECES BY HIM.  

 

ROMANS 1:18-32- FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF HUMANS WHO SUPPRESS THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE THAT WHICH IS KNOWN ABOUT GOD IS EVIDENT WITHIN THEM; FOR GOD MADE IT EVIDENT TO THEM.  FOR SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES, HIS ETERNAL POWER AND DIVINE NATURE, HAVE BEEN CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD THROUGH WHAT HAS BEEN MADE, SO THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE.  FOR EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW GOD, THEY DID NOT HONOR HIM AS GOD OR GIVE THANKS, BUT THEY BECAME FUTILE IN THEIR SPECULATIONS, AND THEIR FOOLISH HEART WAS DARKENED.  PROFESSING TO BE WISE, THEY BECAME FOOLS, THEY EXCHANGED THE GLORY OF THE INCORRUPTIBLE GOD FOR AN IMAGE IN THE FORM OF CORRUPTIBLE HUMANS AND OF BIRDS  AND FOUR-FOOTED ANIMALS AND CRAWLING CREATURES.  THEREFORE GOD GAVE THEM OVER IN THE LUSTS OF THEIR HEARTS TO IMPURITY, SO THAT THEIR BODIES WOULD BE DISHONORED AMONG THEM.  FOR THEY EXCHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD FOR A LIE AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE RATHER THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOREVER. AMEN.  FOR THIS REASON GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO DEGRADING PASSIONS; FOR THEIR WOMEN EXCHANGED THE NATURAL FUNCTION FOR THAT WHICH IS UNNATURAL, AND IN THE SAME WAY ALSO THE MEN ABANDONED THE NATURAL FUNCTION OF THE WOMAN AND BURNED IN THEIR DESIRE TOWARD ON ANOTHER, MEN WITH MEN COMMITTED INDECENT ACTS AND RECEIVING IN THEIR OWN PERSONS THE DUE PENALTY OF THEIR ERROR.  AND JUST AS THEY DID NOT SEE FIT TO ACKNOWLEDGE GOD ANY LONGER, GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A DEPRAVED MIND, TO DO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT PROPER, BEING FILLED WITH ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, WICKEDNESS, GREED, EVIL; FULL OF ENVY, MURDER, STRIFE, DECEIT, MALICE; THEY ARE GOSSIPS, SLANDERERS, HATERS OF GOD, INSOLENT, ARROGANT, BOASTFUL, INVENTORS OF EVIL, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING, UNTRUSTWORTHY, UNLOVING, UNMERCIFUL; AND ALTHOUGH THEY KNOW THE ORDINANCE OF GOD, THAT THOSE WHO PRACTICE SUCH THINGS ARE WORTHY OF DEATH, THEY NOT ONLY DO THE SAME, BUT ALSO GIVE HEARTY APPROVAL TO THOSE WHO PRACTICE THEM.  

 

ROMANS 2:5- BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR HARD AND IMPENITENT HEART YOU ARE STORING UP WRATH FOR YOURSELF ON THE DAY OF WRATH WHEN GOD’S RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT WILL BE REVEALED.  

 

1 THESSALONIANS 5:9- FOR GOD HAS NOT DESTINED US FOR WRATH, BUT TO OBTAIN SALVATION THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.  

 

Fear of the Lord-

 

EXODUS 20:20- DO NOT FEAR, FOR GOD HAS COME TO TEST YOU, THAT THE FEAR OF HIM MAY BE BEFORE YOU, THAT YOU MAY NOT SIN.  

 

DEUTERONOMY 10:12- AND NOW ISRAEL, WHAT DOES THE LORD YOUR GOD REQUIRE OF YOU, BUT TO FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD, TO WALK IN ALL HIS WAYS, TO LOVE HIM, TO SERVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL.  

 

JOB 28:28- BEHOLD, THE FEAR OF THE LORD, THAT IS WISDOM, AND TO TURN AWAY FROM EVIL IS UNDERSTANDING.  

 

PSALM 111:10- THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM; ALL THOSE WHO PRACTICE IT HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING.  

 

PROVERBS 1:7- THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE; FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION.  

 

MATTHEW 10:28- AND DO NOT FEAR THOSE WHO KILL THE BODY BUT CANNOT KILL THE SOUL.  RATHER FEAR HIM WHO CAN DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND BODY IN HELL. 

 

PHILIPPIANS 2:12-13- THEREFORE, MY BELOVED, AS YOU HAVE ALWAYS OBEYED, SO NOW, NOT ONLY AS IN MY PRESENCE BUT MUCH MORE IN MY ABSENCE, WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING, FOR IT IS GOD WHO WORKS IN YOU, BOTH TO WILL AND TO WORK FOR HIS GOOD PLEASURE.