"Don't hurt the boy or do anything to him," he said. "Now I know that you honor and obey God, because you have not kept back your only son from him."

On the third day Joseph said to them, "I am a God-fearing man, and I will spare your lives on one condition.

Every governor who had been in office before me had been a burden to the people and had demanded forty silver coins a day for food and wine. Even their servants had oppressed the people. But I acted differently, because I honored God.

There was a man named Job, living in the land of Uz, who worshiped God and was faithful to him. He was a good man, careful not to do anything evil.

God said to us humans, "To be wise, you must have reverence for the Lord. To understand, you must turn from evil."

"Don't they know?" asks the LORD. "Are all these evildoers ignorant? They live by robbing my people, and they never pray to me."

Sin speaks to the wicked deep in their hearts; they reject God and do not have reverence for him.

Their speech is wicked and full of lies; they no longer do what is wise and good.

To have knowledge, you must first have reverence for the LORD. Stupid people have no respect for wisdom and refuse to learn.

If you do, you will know what it means to fear the LORD and you will succeed in learning about God.

To honor the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil ways and false words.

Be loyal and faithful, and God will forgive your sin. Obey the LORD and nothing evil will happen to you.

nor have they learned reverence for God."

When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.

When the men there asked about his wife, he said that she was his sister. He would not admit that she was his wife, because he was afraid that the men there would kill him to get Rebecca, who was very beautiful.