Paradoxes (which are valid premises seemingly contradictory against each other) typically come in pairs.

Doubles - of one statement in apparently diametrical opposition against the other.

For example, consider the following duo-component Bible verses contrasted with each other:

Luke 14:26 "If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

vs:

Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 5:16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Matthew 15:4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'
Mark 10:19 You know the commandments: 'Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.
Luke 18:20 You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.'
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Another paradox:

Exodus 22:28 You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
Proverbs 24:21 My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not disobey either of them
Ecclesiastes 8:2 Keep the king's command, and because of your sacred oath be not dismayed
Ecclesiastes 8:4 For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, "What are you doing?"
Ecclesiastes 10:20 Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a [electronic?] "bird of the air" will carry your voice, or some "winged creature" tell the matter.

Romans 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
2 Therefore he who resists the authorities resists who God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword [ or Glock sidear pistol? ] in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.
5 Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.

Hebrews 13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this joyfully, and not sadly, for that would be of no advantage to you.

vs:

Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.
Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men."
Hebrew 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful; and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

Another one (among many others):

Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them. And all the people shall say: "Amen."
Matthew 5:48 You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

vs:

Joshua 24:19 But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the LORD; for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Psalm 14:3 They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.
Psalm 53:3 They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved; there is none that does good, no, not one.
Jeremiah 2:35 you say, 'I am innocent; surely His anger has turned from me.' Hey, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'
Romans 3:10 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one

Hebrews 10:10 And by [Christ's] will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God,
13 then to wait until His enemies should be made a stool for His feet.
14 For by a single offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

First John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
First John 1:10 If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His Word is not in us.

Does it initially appear that above-mentioned Scripture verses seemingly at odds and in conflict against one another give the [wrong?] impression that such contents of The Holy Bible are, at best, puzzling or capricious - or, at worst, ridiculously absurd?

How are such seemingly-irreconcilable paradoxes resolved?

Essentially, there are at least two answers.

First, all paradoxical prime directives of Holy Writ are quite adequately and successfully resolved by turning in unconditional allegiance to Jesus Christ, and totally surrendering oneself 24/7 completely, to His omniscient authority and rulership as both redeeming Atoner and Lord (or Master).

Second, it is obviously logical and sensible that various prime-directive-specified activities done during their duration of time are "partitioned" and not done simultaneously, or at least done simultaneously by one particular individual, or done with a more than narrow-minded one-sided perspective.

For instance, one does not both continue to be stopped at a standstill while simultaneously going forward when motionless at a red stoplight. However, one can be both (in the process of) stopping and going forward when slowing down as one approaches a red stoplight. All gradations along the way of such gradual deceleration comprise the phenomenon mentioned in the last sentence, and are legitimate fulfillments of the intended premise.

Solomon described a similar portrayal of "situation ethics" conditioned and controlled by Spirit-motivated-and-directed responses to sundry circumstances, in which one thing is done while the other is not done, and vice-versa:

Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to discard;
7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
9 What gain has the worker from his labor?
10 I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time; also He has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

The latter verse reminds us of a physics law known as The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, in that where does any physical object in the universe precisely begin and where does it exactly end.

At what precise point do your keyboard-typing fingers touch the molecules and associated nucleonic atoms of the keyboard keys, and what exact point in three-dimensional space do the molecules and associated nucleonic atoms of the keys prevent your typing fingers from continuing on through without definitively stopping them? Referring back to the alternates within each verse of Ecclesiastes chapter 3, can one begin to die the moment one is born? Can one kill bacteria in the process of healing? Can one weep with laughter, or display a mournful dance? Can one hate evil while loving good, and be a peace officer while warring against criminals?

Is there a cause why many people are inordinately tolerant and critically adamant in imposing their proclaimed non-judgmentalness? Are many others negative against negativism, while - in strange and noxious imbalance - supportive of only what they misconsider "positive?"

Consider the stark contrast of the entire dialogues and comments attributed to the predecessors of gentle? Jesus Christ (portrayed by pervert painters as some non-Jewish-looking effeminately-loose-long-haired wimp roaming around in some pasture carrying a lamb in his arms), then the Lord Himself, as recorded in the four New-Testament gospels. He was occasionally forgiving, but - although He never went out aggressively seeking combative confrontation and being a peace-disturbing public nuisance - He was often negatively condemnatory and even blatantly harsh when hostile and misrepresentative accusers caused Him to retort viciously with various searing remarks:

Psalm 32:9 Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not keep with you.
Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with harlots, and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.

Matthew 12:34 You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
15:16 And he said, "Are you also still without understanding?
16:23 But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of humans."
23:17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
23:33 You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

Mark 7:18 And He said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him
Mark 8:33 But turning and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not on the side of God, but of humans."

Luke 11:40 You fools! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

Luke 24:25 And He said to them, "Oh foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:55 But you have not known him; I know him. If I said, "I do not know him," I would be a liar like you; but I do know him and I keep his word.

These comments came from a Jesus who claimed that He metaphorically was a symbolic piece of euphemistic carpentry (The Door), euphemistic vegetation (The True Vine), ordered people to euphemistically ingest his symbolic flesh and euphemistically drink His symbolic blood, and euphemistically said that a dead man was "sleeping."

But, the prophets of the Old Testament uttered copious amounts of criticism against Israel and Judah - not with racist antisemitism - but rather with exposure of the godless waywardness of a backsliding Chosen People (entrusted with the oracles of God, from who salvation was from, and beloved for the sake of their forefathers).

Though Saint Paul, in his extension New-Testament writings, was sometimes affectionate and commendatory, He (like Jesus) was flagrantly brutal in his negative judgmental criticism:

First Corinthians 15:36 You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
First Corinthians 16:22 If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!

Galatians 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed.
1:9 As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed.
3:1 Oh foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the trying-to-atone-for-yourselves-by-pick-and-choose-now-and-then-quasi-obedience-to-the-Law and since-I-am-always-forgiven-by-grace-I-can-licentiously-now-and-then-sin-carnally flesh?

Acts 13:10 and said (to Elymas), "You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

Saint Peter was similarly harsh in his negativistic condemnations:

Second Peter 2:14 They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
2:22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog turns back to his own vomit, and the pig is washed only to wallow in the mire.
2:12 But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them

Saint Jude is no less negative and cruel:

Jude 1:8 Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
9 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
10 But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
11 Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error, and perish in Korah's rebellion.
12 These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.
14 It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, "Hey, the Lord came with His holy myriads,
15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the godless of all their deeds of godlessness which they have committed in such an godless way, and of all the harsh things which godless sinners have spoken against Him."
16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 they said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own godless passions."
19 It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.

Saint John was forthrightly also quite non-complimentary:

First John 2:4 He who says "I know Him" but disobeys His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
First John 2:22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
Second John 1:9 Any one who goes ahead and does not stay in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who stays in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
Second John 1:10 If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him (nor her) into the house or give him (nor her) any greeting;
Second John 1:11 for he/she who greets him/her shares his/her wicked work.
Third John 1:9 I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
Third John 1:10 So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.

Wouldn't you know it? Even the Trinitarian Creator Himself/Themself reprimanded humans severely:

Genesis 3:16 To [Eve] the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing and conception; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
17 And to Adam [Eve's patsy conspiratorial husband] He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

and:

Genesis 6:13 And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; hey, I will destroy them with the earth.

Nice. Sweet - considering that God Himself was responsible for imposing the non-solicited Stumbling Blocks of the Garden Tempter and the dangerous and lethal-to-become Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden.

Proof of His responsibility for that?

Romans 11:32 For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.
Galatians 3:22 But the scripture consigned all things to sin, that what was promised to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

True, God did not force either Eve nor Adam to ingest the fatal food from The Tree. That was their stupid mortal choice and a gross naive misuse of their God-given free wills.

Moreoever, God the Creator allows Satan-formerly-Lucifer to inflict all sorts of Job-reminiscent natural disaster deaths against people everywhere and any time . . . although it is the fault of humans that they have not obediently learned enough in required growth of knowing the mind of Christ and God's will enough to get out of God's way before calamities strike, but instead have rebelliously fooled around with their lack-of-insight sinnings.

The response is, of course, "yes" -- and they do that in their cowardly and selfishly self-seeking attempt to avoid persecution from naysaying others, others who they presume or assume would be offended by corrective rebukes.

Thus, they fear humans rather than God, and so their actually judgmental "tolerance" makes themselves a despicable skewed aberrant unworthy of respect and honorable recognition.

Genesis 20:11 Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
22:12 He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God (not your wife or friends or social workers who might turn you into the cops for murdering her son and a citizen of the community), seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
26:24 And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father; fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham's sake."
31:42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac [the "Fear" of Isaac?], had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children.

Exodus 18:21 Moreover choose able men from all the people, such as fear God, men who are trustworthy and who hate a bribe; and place such men over the people as rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Exodus 20:20 And Moses said to the people, "Do not fear; for God has come to prove you, and that the fear of him may be before your eyes, that you may not sin."

Leviticus 19:14 You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.
19:32 "You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.
25:17 You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
25:36 Take no interest from him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live beside you.
25:43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

Numbers 14:9 Only, do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."

Deuteronomy 1:21 Hey, the LORD your God has set the land before you; go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you; do not fear or be dismayed.'
2:25 This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.'
3:2 But the LORD said to me, 'Do not fear him; for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.'
3:22 You shall not fear them; for it is the LORD your God who fights for you.'

There is much reward for being afraid of God more than being afraid of humans, including humans in temporal authority of all types:

Deuteronomy 5:29 Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children forever!
6:2 that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all His statutes and His commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
6:13 You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and swear by His name.
6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
20:3 and shall say to them, 'Hear, Oh Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint; do not fear, or tremble, or be in dread of them;
31:6 Be strong and of good courage, do not fear or be in dread of them: for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will not fail you or forsake you."

First Kings 17:13 And Elijah said to her, "Fear not; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make for yourself and your son.

Second Kings 6:16 He said, "Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
17:25 And at the beginning of their residence there, they did not fear the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
17:35 The LORD made a covenant with them, and commanded them, "You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them
; 17:36 but you shall fear the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm; you shall bow yourselves to Him, and to Him you shall sacrifice.
17:37 And the statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods
17:38 and you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods.

Second Chronicles 20:17 You will not need to fight in this battle; take your position, stand still, and see the victory of the LORD on your behalf, Oh Judah and Jerusalem. Fear not, and be not dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, and the LORD will be with you.'"

Psalm 9:20 Put them in fear, Oh LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men!
27:3 Though a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.
34:7 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and delivers them.
34:9 Oh fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him have no want!
56:4 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust without a fear. What can flesh do to me?
56:11 in God I trust without a fear. What can man do to me?
85:9 Surely His salvation is at hand for those who fear Him, that glory may reside in our land.
103:17 But the continuous love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children,
111:5 He provides food for those who fear Him; He is ever mindful of His covenant.
115:11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.
119:120 My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.

Proverbs 10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
14:26 In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.
15:16 Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.
15:33 The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility goes before honor.
16:6 By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD a man avoids evil.
19:23 The fear of the LORD leads to life; and he who has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.

Ecclesiastes 8:12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him;
Ecclesiastes 8:13 but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Isaiah 8:12 Do not call conspiracy all that this people call conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
8:13 But the LORD of hosts, Him you shall regard as holy; let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.
11:2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
11:3 And His delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what His eyes see, or decide by what His ears hear;
25:3 Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
51:7 Positively respond to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not dismayed at their revilings.
51:12 I, I am He who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man/woman who dies, of the son/daughter of humans who is made like grass,
13 and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?
54:14 In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
57:11 Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not give me a thought? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and so you do not fear me?

Daniel 6:26 I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring for ever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end.

Jonah 1:9 And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew [creationist]; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."

Malachi 3:5 "Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the traveler, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 4:2 But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.

Matthew 10:26 "So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
Matthew 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Hell.
Matthew 28:4 And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men.

Luke 12:4 "I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luke 12:5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to throw into Hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!

John 7:13 Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of Him.
John 12:42 Nevertheless many even of the authorities believed in Him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should be put out of the synagogue (or church, or mosque?)

Acts 5:5 When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear came upon all who heard of it.
5:11 And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all who heard of these things.
9:31 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied.
13:16 So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

Second Corinthians 5:11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade humans (both men and women); but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.

Second Corinthians 7:1 Being we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear (NOT merely "respect") of God.

First Timothy 5:20 As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear (i.e. be afraid, not simply show "respect").

Heb 5:7 In the days of His flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and requests, with loud cries and tears, to Him who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard for His godly fear (NOT merely "respect").

First John 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love.

First Peter 2:17 Honor all humans. Love the brotherhood. Fear (i.e. be afraid of) God. Honor the emperor.
First Peter 3:14 But even if you do suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,

Revelation 11:18 The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Revelation 14:7 and he said with a loud voice, "Fear (that is: be afraid of) God and give Him glory, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him (the Creator who created creationists) who made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of water."
Revelation 19:5 And from the throne came a voice crying, "Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear Him, small and great."

This is why it is crucial for us to never ever forgive anyone who is even momentarily impenitent (which a lot of people are perpetrating the very opposite), and especially one who continues in impenitence.

We have heard cowards on media reports: "Oh, I forgive him for committing brutal genocide against my family members" - even after they hear the murderer viciously predict when behind bars: "If I ever get out, the first person I would viciously murder would be the guy (or gal) who forgave me for murdering his (or her) family members."

Such acquiescent fear of mankind is not only pathetic, but damnably demonic and satanic!

Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man lays a snare, but he who trusts in the LORD is safe.