Fear God

⁴ “I say to you, my friends,^(A) don’t fear^(B) those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more. ⁵ But I will show you the one to fear: Fear^(C) him who has authority to throw people into hell^(D) after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the one to fear! ⁶ Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies?^[a] Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight.^{(E) 7} Indeed, the hairs of your head are all counted. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

2 So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.^{(A) 2} On the seventh^[a] day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested^[b] on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.^{(B) 3} God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested^(C) from all his work of creation.^(D)