"And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear" (1 Pet 1:17)
In holy fear, not in servile, slavish fear, but in a blessed state of sacred timidity and awe lest you should offend your God and Savior.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Hence faith and good works are yoked together, so that the sum total of the whole Christian life consists in these two parts; not that good works contribute anything to our justification before God, but that faith without good works does not exist, or it is not true faith.
... not because of pain and punishment, as un-Christians and the devil fear, but that He forsakes you not and withdraws His hand; as a pious child fears lest he provokes his father and does something that may not be pleasing to him. It is just such a fear that God wishes us to have, in order to keep ourselves from sin and serve our neighbor while we live here upon the earth.
- Martin Luther (Commentary on 1 Peter)
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