The gospel in words: 'Reverence'
"Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire." (Hebrews 12:28-29)
"Reverence" is a "deep respect and veneration for some thing, place, or person regarded as having a sacred or exalted character" (Oxford English Dictionary). Reverence comes from a root which means to watch out for, guard, protect, cover; in particular it has the sense of to watch with religious regard (The Origins of English Words).
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anonymous | April 30, 2009 at 11:49 a.m.
KJV, Hebrews 12:28 ....reverence and godly fear
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