'Fearful' in the Bible
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
They were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking on ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were fearful. And again He took the twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to Him,
He said to them, “Where is your faith?”They were fearful and amazed, asking one another, “Who can this be? He commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey Him!”
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Your heart must not be troubled or fearful.
But I am afraid that, even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted and led away from the simplicity of [your sincere and] pure devotion to Christ.
For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not to be as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder;
I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality and decadence which they formerly practiced.
I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.
how I wish that I were with you now and could change my tone, because I am perplexed in regard to you.
For this reason, when I could no longer endure the suspense, I sent someone to find out about your faith [how you were holding up under pressure], for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our work [among you] would prove to be ineffective.
Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning.
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, 'I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.'
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Bible Theasaurus
- Afraid (405 instances)
- Awful (17 instances)
- Coward (1 instance)
- Cowardly (5 instances)
- Dire (2 instances)
- Dread (98 instances)
- Dreaded (15 instances)
- Dreadful (25 instances)
- Fearful (88 instances)
- Fearsome (5 instances)
- Frightening (11 instances)
- Frightful (4 instances)
- Horrendous (2 instances)
- Horrific (2 instances)
- Shocking (4 instances)
- Terrible (200 instances)
Reverse Interlinear
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