¹⁸ Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

⁴³ You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.

¹¹ Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

⁹ Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

² saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.

⁴ He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,