Bible Verses About Reverence
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for reverence, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 32,279 votes, led by Hebrews 12:28. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Reverence
Hebrews 12:28809 votes
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
1 Peter 2:17680 votes
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Hebrews 5:7665 votes
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Leviticus 26:2583 votes
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 1:7558 votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Psalms 89:7556 votes
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
Exodus 3:5513 votes
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Leviticus 19:30503 votes
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
Ephesians 5:21485 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Proverbs 9:10420 votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Hebrews 12:28-29410 votes
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Philippians 2:3405 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
1 Peter 3:2373 votes
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
1 Samuel 12:24360 votes
Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
Leviticus 19:32356 votes
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
Acts 17:10-11352 votes
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
Ephesians 5:33347 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Psalms 111:10335 votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
1 Peter 2:21333 votes
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
1 Thessalonians 5:12-13331 votes
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
Romans 12:10325 votes
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Hebrews 12:9323 votes
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Psalms 95:6322 votes
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
Exodus 20:12319 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Matthew 7:21-23312 votes
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
What does the Bible say about reverence?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 12:28 on the subject of reverence. Across 32,279 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 2:17, Hebrews 5:7, Leviticus 26:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.