The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Jeremiah 8:5 5Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
But love you your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.
And said, Truly I say to you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Five Kings War against Gibeon Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeo...
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
