Proverbs: The Fear of the Lord

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The repeated thesis of Proverbs is that "the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom." The fear of the Lord is the key to understanding the book of Proverbs and the key to understanding the kind of life wisdom teaches us to live. The fear of God is a description of the right way of relating to the God who is absolutely holy and hates our sin but who sends his own Son to suffer our punishment in our place.