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NASB | 1 Peter 1:17 ¶ If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 1:17 ¶ If you address as Father, the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in [reverent] fear [of Him] and with profound respect for Him throughout the time of your stay on earth. |
Subject: Fear God! |
Bible Note: Tim, blessings to you, bon ami, bon frere! Jonathan Edwards' most famous sermon perhaps was "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." How would a sermon like that fly in most church houses today? Would the "unfearful" parishioners throw the sermon out the nearest window and the preacher out the back door? We have domesticated God. We have taken away His wrath and judgment and turned Him into that Great Loving Fuzzy-wuzzy Teddy Bear of the Skies. We the faithful have done this. Secular humanism has done more. It ignores God as if He had been but a chalk image on a blackboard that was easily removed by one swipe of a felt eraser. It is much in the vanguard today to commit to the ideological funny farm any notion that the whole duty of man is to fear God and keep His commandments. --Hank |