Quotes About Fear

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacobís sons.

During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”

she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.

When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

But Jacob did not send Josephís brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”

“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:

“My silver has been returned!” he said to his brothers. “It is here in my sack.” Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”

“The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.

As they began emptying their sacks, there in each manís sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”

But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ëYou will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.í”

“Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”

But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Josephís house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

“It is fine,” said the steward. “Do not be afraid. Your God, the God of your father, gave you the treasure that was in your sacks. I received your silver.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.

When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.

Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.í

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.

“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horseís heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

When Josephís brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”