Why does God want us to fear him ?
I take the fear of the Lord as a daily comparison to the Word of God.
Philippians 2:1-5
1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded , having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind .
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Romans 4:13-16
13 For the
promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void , and the
promise made of none effect :
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is , there is no transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith?
God forbid : yea, we establish the law.
Galatians 3:21 Is the law then against the
promises of God?
God forbid : for if there had been a law given which could have given life , verily righteousness should have been by the law.
Hebrews 4:1
Let us therefore fear , lest,
a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it .