Verse 17

And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt hath spoken unto them, and keep the lads alive;

Referenced Verses

  • Acts 5:29 : 29 And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;
  • Prov 16:6 : 6 In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.
  • Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, yea, they are saying to the king Nebuchadnezzar, `We have no need concerning this matter to answer thee. 17 Lo, it is; our God whom we are serving, is able to deliver us from a burning fiery furnace; and from thy hand, O king, He doth deliver. 18 And lo -- not! be it known to thee, O king, that thy gods we are not serving, and to the golden image thou hast raised up we do no obeisance.'
  • Dan 6:13 : 13 Then they have answered, yea, they are saying before the king, that, `Daniel, who `is' of the sons of the Removed of Judah, hath not placed on thee, O king, `any' regard, nor on the interdict that thou hast signed, and three times in a day he is seeking his petition.'
  • Exod 1:21 : 21 and it cometh to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He maketh for them households;
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 the former governors who `are' before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people -- and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.
  • Ps 31:19 : 19 How abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,
  • Eccl 8:12 : 12 Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred `times', and prolonging `himself' for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 The end of the whole matter let us hear: -- `Fear God, and keep His commands, for this `is' the whole of man.
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 `And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.
  • Luke 12:5 : 5 but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.
  • Acts 4:18-20 : 18 And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus, 19 and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye; 20 for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 If `from' delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back. 12 When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.
  • Gen 20:11 : 11 And Abraham saith, `Because I said, `Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;
  • Gen 42:18 : 18 And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!