The Fear of the Lord and the Love of God

As a young man growing up in the American south, I heard the phrase “God fearing” a lot. As in, “He’s a God fearing man.”

I think it comes from Psalm 111:10: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” or its near corollary, Proverbs 1:7: “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.”

So someone who is “God fearing” is someone, presumably, with …