Quotes about Fear
Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
— 1 Samuel 15:24
“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’
— 1 Samuel 16:2
So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
— 1 Samuel 16:4
On hearing the words of the Philistine, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and greatly afraid.
— 1 Samuel 17:11
And as he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the Philistines and shouted his usual words, which David also heard.
— 1 Samuel 17:23
When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him in great fear.
— 1 Samuel 17:24
The people told him about the offer, saying, “That is what will be done for the man who kills him.”
— 1 Samuel 17:27
Now the Philistine came closer and closer to David, with his shield-bearer before him.
— 1 Samuel 17:41
“Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”
— 1 Samuel 17:44
So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.
— 1 Samuel 18:12
When Saul saw that David was very successful, he was afraid of him.
— 1 Samuel 18:15
he grew even more afraid of David. So from then on Saul was David’s enemy.
— 1 Samuel 18:29