The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
*** Proverbs1:7 ***
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You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
*** Psalms 139:3 ***
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47 “Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
*** Deuteronomy 28:47-48 ***
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14 “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of [a]the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of [b]the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
*** Joshua 24:14-15 ***