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A2A thanksPicture this scenario.An ordered procession of senators, toga-clad and stately, it is a powerful, timeless, enduring image of Ancient Rome. It tells us a lot about how the Romans saw themselves: as civilised, law abiding, and virtuous citizens. Above all it embodies dignitas – a peculiar Roman concept which has no direct or implicit English translation, but it was used to refer to a state of being determined by an individual’s dignity, merit, honour, self-control and public respect. To justify his crossing of the Rubicon river and marching on Rome, Julius Caesar said that dignitas meant more to him than life itself.Given the calm ideology of dignitas, you might could imagine that Ancient Rome was a tolerant, calm and pleasant place to live. The truth, couldn’t be any further from it: Rome was a city riddled by intolerance and violence, a proverbial breeding ground for class hatred, racial animosity, religious intolerance and sexual exploitation. So while the Romans may have thought of themselves as civilised, many portions of their society would be unacceptable and not tolerated in the modern world or in today’s society.Class dividesOnly a Roman could have dignitas, but it was seen as the exclusive possession of the wealthy, educated elite. The plebeians (Plebeian, also spelled Plebian, Latin Plebs, plural Plebes, member of the general citizenry in ancient Rome as opposed to the privileged patrician class. ... Until 287 bc the plebeians waged a campaign (Conflict of the Orders) to have their civil disabilities abolished)of Rome – the sordid or vulgarplebs, as the lower classes were called by those above them in the social pyramid – could not possess the quality.(Think socs vs townies)In this sense this is not a surprise. In the eyes of their self-styled betters, the urban plebs in the city were not even considered Roman at all. Consider Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of Rome’s greatest orators, for example: he flattered the true-born members of the public to their faces – describing them as “masters of the world” or “inheritors of antique Roman virtues”. But in a work of philosophy aimed at other members of the elite, he employed the language of disparaging snobbery, referring to the plebs as an “invidious multitude”. He disparaged the working classes that kept the elite in positions of weath, power, ran their homes, and actually fed, clothed, and reared their children.The more aristocratic orator Scipio Aemilianus upbraided the plebs even more directly. They were “foreigners”, he told them, and Italy was no more than their stepmother. Stating that eventhpugh they are born in Italy like everyone else they aren't really Italian, moreover not even Romans.Racial animosityRome was a city of immigrants. By the reign of Augustus (31 BC–AD 14) the city had an estimated one million inhabitants. The exponential increase in population had in part been caused by the ‘Agrarian Crisis` of the previous two centuries, as the growth of the great landed estates owned by the rich drove Italian peasants away from rural areas and forced them to seek a new life in the metropolis. The influx continued through the first three centuries AD, as economic migrants flocked to Rome from across the empire. The Roman poet and satirist Juvenal expressed the contempt of the wider elite when he notoriously denigrated arrivals from Syria as “the shit from the river Orontes flowing into the Tiber”. Many of these incomers lived crammed into insalubrious tenement blocks, while the less fortunate took up residence under bridges, or set up refugee camps in the park land of the northern Campus Martius, a publicly owned area of Ancient Rome.Other migrants arrived in Rome because they had no choice through. At any given time, a significant percentage of the population of the city was made up of ex-slaves whose origins could have been from anywhere within the empire, or beyond its frontiers. The elite – seemed to forget that Romulus (one of the mythical founders of Rome) had welcomed slaves into his original settlement on the Palatine Hill – could therefore despise the plebs as ‘foreigners’ of servitudial(servants) ancestry.ViolenceIn the eyes of the elite, the urban plebs were little better than barbarians. They were often perceived as being irrational and violent. Writing in his third Satire, Juvenal pictured an encounter with a drunken plebeian bully as being a particularly unpleasant experience. “Where have you sprung from?” the plebeian was imagined to have said. “What a stench of beans and sour wine! I know your sort, you have been with some cobbler friend, eating a boiled sheep`s head and spring onions. What? Nothing to say? Speak up, or I will kick your teeth in!”Ironically enough, the elite were no strangers to inflicting physical violence – although, they had to maintain their dignitas at all cost. The father of the imperial physician Galen once advised his friends not to punch their servants in the mouth – not because it might cause pain or humiliation to the servant, but because of the risk posed to the owner. You might cut your knuckles on the servant’s teeth, he warned, or (far worse) you might give way to irrational anger and lose self-control. What a good owner should do is send for a stick that could be used to thrash the offending servant in a calm and controlled manner. The films depicting a “servant master" with a whip and bamboo stalks are historically correct, but if they must dish out a beating, the elite must retain their dignity.Above is an engraving depicting the Roman physician Galen during an anatomy demonstration in Rome, Italy, c162 AD. Galen's father once advised his friends not to punch their servants in the mouth – to avoid hurting their own knuckles or damaging themselves. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)The hatred that the elite felt for the plebeians was returned. When the emperor Maximinus Thrax persecuted the elite for their wealth (he required their money to pay for a war in the north) the plebeians(lower clsses) had very little sympathy. The contemporary historian Herodian described the reaction as follows: “Disasters that occur to those who are apparently fortunate and rich do not concern the common people and sometimes even cause pleasure to certain worthless, malicious individuals, because they envy the powerful and prosperous.”RebellionAs an individual, a plebeian could indulge in little resistance to the elite beyond gossip, they had no standing therefore, no power, or listening to the utopian rantings of a Cynic (a philosopher who rejected the traditional social norms by, chastising the wealthy in public). As a mob, the plebeians could make their voices heard. Food shortages were one of the most common reasons for rioting.(The elite threw elaborate parties but gave their “leftovers” to hostels ran by their version of religious leaders or fed it to their stables,not necessarily horses, etc). In provincial towns, rioters would target the governor or local elite with their attacks (which usually took the form of arson or stoning).In the city of Rome, angry mobs would be tackled head-on by the Praetorian Guard, the bodyguard of the emperors, and other military units. In AD 238, the Year of the Six Emperors, much of Rome was burned down during fighting between the plebs and the soldiers. Herodian, working as a civil servant, tells us that both sides took advantage of the chaos to turn on the elite: “The entire possessions of some rich men were looted by criminals and the lower class, who mixed with the soldiers in order to accomplish just this.”Sexual exploitationThe perceived servitual origins of the plebs contributed to their sexual degradation by those above them. For elite men, whose households were stocked with slaves of both sexes, the boundaries of coercion and rape were blurred. “Every master has full authority to use his slave as he might wish,” said the philosopher Musonius Rufus.In the sexuality of the Roman elite man, it mattered little if one preferred to have sex with men or women. The pleasure to be derived from each was debated in literature, and presumably in conversation. Some men tended to stick to one or the other, but many enjoyed both. ‘Homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ were not categories by which contemporaries defined themselves.One of the many paintings that was discovered in the house of a wealthy resident of Pompeii, preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. While the gender of the partner during sex did not matter to the Roman elite, the question of who was 'active' or 'passive' during the act was "vitally important", says Harry Sidebottom. The former was acceptable for a man, and was considered ‘manly’, no matter the gender of the partner. The latter, on the other hand, was ‘effeminate’: it ‘unmanned’ a man, and left his reputation tainted for life. Even the women participated in the sexual “use" of their slaves. If one were to get pregnant and the fetus could not be aborted by the herbal remedies used at that time, if a child had been long awaited but none were forthcoming, the elitist husband could claim it with no one being the wiser. If the child was of a different race then the child could be foisted off on another servant to raise.Because plebeian men who had previously been slaves had been available for sexual exploitation by their owners, they were already considered ‘degraded’ and it was therefore ‘natural’ for them to be ‘passive’ during sex. As the Roman rhetorician Seneca the Elder put it: “shameful sexual behaviour” – which for men means being the passive recipient of sexual activity – was “criminal in a freeborn person, a necessity in a slave, and a duty in an ex-slave”.It was socially unacceptable for an elite male to have active sex with another man of his own class, or with their womenfolk (except, of course, his own wife). The plebs, however, were not protected by any such social restraints, and poverty induced many of them – both male and female – to work as prostitutes within their “own house". Their “owners" loaned them out to their “friends" for position, favors, or just to have leverage over them at a later date.Religious intoleranceIn the eyes of the elite, the urban plebs of Rome worshipped strange gods, and were prey to numberless outlandish superstitions. If they stubbed a toe or slipped, heard the caw of a crow or the squeak of a mouse, saw a roof tile fall, or met a monkey or a eunuch [a male who has been castrated], it was considered bad luck. In the marketplace, they consulted illiterate dream diviners, astrologers, and, among other charlatans, those who foretold the future by using an unknown method involving types cheese.It has been stated that some Egyptians moved into the Subura, a notorious area in the city of Rome, to be close to the temple of the goddess Isis on the Campus Martius. Shaven-headed and bare chested, the priests of Isis stood out. At times they wore the dog-faced mask of Anubis, the Ancient Egyptian god of the dead. Juvenal cast a jaundiced eye on the ‘otherness’ of the Egyptians, including their tendency to violence and odd dietary prohibitions: they avoided onions, leeks, as well as lamb and mutton.Most degraded of all were the Christians, who were considered ‘atheists’ as they denied the existence of all divinities except their own crucified god (called either Chrestus or Christ). The Christians often gathered for secret ceremonies in the dark, and this encouraged lurid speculation about their activities. Rumour had it that they met in a room with a dog tied to a lampstand; when a piece of meat was thrown in to the room, the dog would pull over the lamp and plunge the room into darkness – thereby allowing the Christians to indulge in indiscriminate and supposedly incestuous couplings. In reality, as an illegal cult, the Christians were likely meeting before dawn or after dusk to avoid the eyes of their pagan neighbours who might denounce them to the authorities. How the elite loved to spread rumours about people who “weren't them".

People say I'm a "Hollywood elite" with "New York values" and so I'm unclear when it became okay in America to be successful in any field but entertainment.We make movies and TV shows. (Also music and games and lots of other stuff -- in our digital age, it's California from which all blessings flow -- but Trump and conservative media like to tee off on celebrities, so here we are.)We're not stock market swindlers or real estate speculators. We're not war profiteers. We’re not Gulf-polluting, climate-killing oil execs. We’re not dismantling public schools and affordable housing and Meals on Wheels. We make movies and TV shows.To conservative media, the people who made The Big Short are worse than the people who actually did The Big Short.Conservative media say we're “out of touch” with “real America” and the “heartland.”We employ movie stars, yes, in suits and evening gowns. Also truck drivers in big ol’ work boots. Electricians and carpenters and welders. Painters and plumbers. Set designers. Prop designers. Costume designers. Accountants. Office staff. Caterers. On-set teachers. I don't know what conservative media think people in the “heartland" do for a living. Tailor scarecrows?(All that CGI you love? Hundreds of people, months of work. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and Pixar and James Cameron advanced the possibilities of computers for everybody using one to read this right now.)Movies and TV shows cost millions -- and tens of millions -- and hundreds of millions of dollars -- and we've never asked for a bailout. Heaven's Gate and Ishtar and Waterworld and Cutthroat Island all put together never cost one cent from pensions or retirement portfolios.They cost so much in part because we employ so many people. End credits with just the actors would last 10 seconds, lights up, and everybody go home. That “Best Boy” and “Key Grip” have funny titles and they take home paychecks.Many if not most of our jobs are union jobs. Good pay, good medical, good pensions. Our bosses, like the Republican Party with every other profession in the country, would like to shatter our unions, steal our pension funds, and pay us in ticket stubs and unpopped popcorn kernels.The difference between us and many voters is we never, ever forget that.Yes, awards shows are lavish spectacles in Hollywood and New York. So is Mardi Gras in New Orleans. So is the Iowa State Fair. Try canceling one of those and explaining to local merchants they can't count on that revenue to make their nut for the year. You'll find a stale beignet in your mouth and a corncob where the sun don't shine.We enjoy awards shows. Ask your office manager whether she'd like to wear a designer dress for free and accept a trophy for her work while millions of people watch on TV. Ask your foreman whether he’d like to get tuxed up and go to a dozen parties (with free food and, ahem, beverages) and hear everybody cheer his name.Sometimes we talk politics onstage. Or human rights. Or issues of national or global concern. Why?There’s a microphone right in front of us and people are listening.But our success isn't measured in statues. We are working people and our work must turn a profit. We have to put butts in seats in theaters, and on couches in homes. A season of a TV show is 8 or 10 or 13 or 22 more episodes we can keep people employed. A box office hit means our next movie will probably be bigger and employ even more people.Jennifer Lawrence is a celebrity. She gets great parts. Directors offer her those parts -- and producers pay her to act those parts -- because people get out of the house and go to theaters to see movies she’s in.A movie star isn’t necessarily a good actor. A movie star is an actor whose movies people want to see. Movie stars don’t get paid $10 million because they’re convincing actors. They get paid because $100 million worth of audiences want to see them. If they make bad choices and star in bad movies, and audiences stop wanting to see them, they stop getting paid $10 million.Even the richest among us tend to support Democrats. We oppose the terrible economic policies of the Republican Party. A thriving middle class is important to us. It’s in our self-interest. People don’t go to the movies if they don’t have money. They cancel cable and satellite and Netflix. They don’t download from iTunes or buy Blu Ray discs.We have money because we have customers. We invest in new projects and we hire people because our customers will pay for what we have to sell. If our customers don't have money, we don't make money.An economy isn’t trickle-down. It's trickle-up. No one has ever invested in anything because of a tax cut. People invest in markets. They spend money, tax cut or no tax cut, for a chance to compete in marketplaces.We compete for your entertainment dollar. All of us spend money to hire — and build — and advertise — and thus drop more money into the economy/market. Other businesses compete for our workers' paychecks: more money into the pot. It's the Circle of Life.Bad Republican policies crush the middle class. I might get a tax cut — but I also draw smaller revenues from fewer customers. So I support Democratic candidates.(Notice I haven't mentioned my humanity once. I haven't talked about hungry kids starved by cutting school food programs. Or your uncle who couldn't retire when the market crashed, he had to take money out to live, and his savings never quite caught up again.)(Emotional arguments aren't necessary when you weren't born a Caesar or a Bush or a Trump. Your self-interest is my self-interest.)Liberals don’t live in cities. Cities make people who live in them more liberal. Even in Red States — those little Blue dots? Cities.(Plus the “heartland" is stuffed with Blue voters. Saying the “heartland" knows more about moving the country in the right direction is a wrong and pandering narrative. Hillary won 65 million votes, 3 million more than Trump, and they were in Kansas and Texas and Idaho and every other state, too.)We live with each other. We have to deal with each other every day. A majority of Trump voters, I’ll bet, have never even seen a Muslim in person. We’re not so easily fooled by dogwhistle rhetoric that demonizes black people, Latinos, and other people of color. We’re not spooked by a gay couple shopping for a wedding cake or a trans kid in a middle school bathroom.We use terms like producer and filmmaker. We produce movies and TV shows. We make movies and TV shows. We make stuff.Movies and TV are among the last things Americans make that anybody wants anymore. And they are recognizable as uniquely American products in every culture on Earth.Movies and TV are ambassadors of some of our best ideas about our society and our humanity. The big, heroic, uplifting movies of the summer are popular all over the world.Meryl Streep is a pretty good actor, I think. Trump, conservative media, and the Republican Party are very, very good actors. I know that for certain. They've convinced millions of people that the excesses of Hollywood are to blame for their problems.Hollywood is a dream factory and conservative media is a red-meat propaganda machine. New York City didn't slash the EPA that helps to preserve clean water and clean soil and, y’know, an atmosphere and dry land for our children. Chicago doesn't want to toss 24 million people off health insurance to get sick, go broke, and die — and not necessarily in that order.If, instead of Leo DiCaprio, we plastered the real-life wolves of Wall Street all over People magazine and Us Weekly — if the paparazzi stalked the Koch brothers and the DeVos family and the Mercers in restaurants and nightclubs — if "real Americans" saw up close the evil and debauchery GOP megadonors get up to —Well — we can dream, can't we?———More of my posts on Quora:Of All the Dumb Things Trump Has Done, This Is Easily the Dumbest———Trump Is Skynet———Bush, Palin, Trump: From Ignorant to Dumb to Stupid (And Dangerous)———What Happens When (Not If) Trump Is Removed from Office———Hillary and the Myth of the White Working Class———It Was the Voters, Fredo. It Was the Voters. (Why Trump Won)———Bernie Sanders Would’ve Lost to Trump, Too —Even Biglier———How to Kill Democracy in 10 Easy Steps———Read more of my off-Quora blog posts at Medium »

Although we do not need the Bible to say anything 365 times in order to heed the message every day, we will do well to appreciate any word or phrase of Scripture that occurs several times enough to equal the number of days in a year in order to serve as a reminder to us everyday.It is often posted on the internet that ‘’do not fear’’ is written in the Bible 365 times, one for each day of the year. For example, see: The phrase do not be afraid is written in the bible 365 times. That's a dail… But a search of ‘’do not be afraid’’ or “fear not” in several Bible translations proves that the phrase doesn't appear 365 times, rather it is “no fear” that appears 364 times in the Bible in Basic English (BBE).However, there are many Bible verses that communicate the sentiment expressed in the quoted phrase in different forms. Here is a list of ‘’do not be afraid’’ and similar phrases that are mentioned 146 times in the Bible:Genesis 15:1 – After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: ‘Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.’Genesis 21:17 – God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her ‘What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.’Genesis 26:24 – That night the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendantsfor the sake of my servant Abraham.’Genesis 35:17 – And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her ‘Don’t despair, for you have another son’Genesis 43:23 – ‘It’s all right’, he said. ‘Don’t be afraid. Your God, the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; I received your silver.’ Then he brought Simeon out to them.Genesis 46:3 – ‘I am God, the God of your father,’ he said. ‘Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.’Genesis 50:19 – But Joseph said to them, ‘Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?’Genesis 50:21 – ‘So then, don’t be afraid.I will provide for you and your children.’ And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.Exodus 14:13 – Moses answered the people, ‘Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.Exodus 20:20 – Moses said to the people ‘Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.’Leviticus 26:6 – I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land and the sword will not pass through your country.Numbers 6:24-26 – The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give peace.Number 14:9 – Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them.Numbers 21:34 – The Lord said to Moses, ‘Do not be afraid of him, for I havedelivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon King of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.’Deuteronomy 1:17 – Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God.Deuteronomy 1:21 – See, the Lord your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the Lord, the Godof your ancestors, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.Deuteronomy 1:29 – Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them.’Deuteronomy 3:2 – The Lord said to me ‘Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in HeshbonDeuteronomy 3:22 – Do not be afraid of them; the Lord you God himself will fight for you.Deuteronomy 7:18 – But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.Deuteronomy 20:1 – When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.Deuteronomy 20:3 – He shall say: ‘Hear, Israel: today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be faint-hearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them.’Deuteronomy 31:6 – ‘Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you norforsake you.’Deuteronomy 31:8 – ‘The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.’Joshua 1:9 – ‘Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.’Joshua 8:1 – Then the Lord said to Joshua, ‘Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land.’Joshua 10:8 – The Lord said to Joshua, ‘Do not be afraid of them; I have given them into your hand. Not one of them willbe able to withstand you.’Joshua 10:25 – Joshua said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Be strong and courageous. This is what the Lord will do to all the enemies you are going to fight.’Joshua 11:6 – The Lord said to Joshua, ‘Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.Judges 4:18 – Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, ‘Come, my lord, come right in. Don’t be afraid.’ So he entered her tent and she covered him with a blanket.Judges 6:23 – But the Lord said to him, ‘Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.’I Samuel 4:20 – As she was dying the women attending her said, ‘Don’t despair; you have given birth to a son.’ But she did not respond or pay any attention.’I Samuel 12:20 – ‘Do no be afraid,’ Samuel replied. ‘You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.’I Samuel 22:23 – Stay with me; don’t be afraid. The man who wants to kill you is trying to kill me too. You will be safe withme.’I Samuel 23:17 – ‘Don’t be afraid,’ he said. ‘My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You shall be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this.’I Samuel 28:13 – The king said to her, ‘Don’t be afraid. What do you see?’II Samuel 9:7 – ‘Don’t be afraid,’ David said to him, ‘for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.’I Kings 17:13 – Elijah said to her, ‘Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it tome, and make something for yourself andyour son.’II Kings 1:15 – The angel of the Lord saidto Elijah, ‘Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.’ So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.11 Kings 6:16 – ‘Don’t be afraid,’ the prophet answered. ‘Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.’II Kings 19:6 – Isaiah said to them, ‘Tell your master, “This is what the Lord says: do not be afraid of what you have heard – those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.”’II Kings 25:24 – Gedaliah took an oath to reassure them and their men. ‘Do not be afraid of the Babylonian officials, he said.‘ Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go will with you.’I Chronicles 22:13 – Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the Lord gave to Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.I chronicles 28:20 – David also said to Solomon his son, ‘Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the tempe of the Lord is finished.’II Chronicles 20:15 – He said: ‘Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the Lord says to you: “Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s”’II Chronicles 20:17 – “You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. God out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.”II Chronicles 32:7 – ‘Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater power with us than with him.’Nehemiah 4:14 – After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, ‘Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.’Job 5:21 – You will be protected from the last of the tongue, and need not fear when destruction comes.Job 11:15 – then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear.Job 21:9 – Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them.Psalm 3:6 – I will not fear though tens of thousands assail me on every side.Psalm 4:8 – In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.Psalm 16:7-9 I will praise the Lord who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure.Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation – whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life – of whom shall I be afraid?Psalm 27:3 – Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.Psalm 29:11 – The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace.Psalm 46:2 – Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.Psalm 49:16 – Do not be overawed when others grow rich, when the splendour of their houses increases;Psalm 56: 3-4 – When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise – in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?Psalm 56:11 – in God I trust and not afraid. What can man do to me?Psalm 78:53 – He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.Psalm 91:5 – You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,Psalm 94:19 – When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.Psalm 118:6 – The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?Psalm 119:165 – Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.Proverbs 3:24 – When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.Proverbs 3:25 – Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wickedEcclesiastes 11:10 – So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigour are meaningless.Isaiah 7:4 – Say to him “Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smouldering stubs of firewood – because of the fierceanger or Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.”Isaiah 8:12 ‘Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.’Isaiah 10:24 – Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says: ‘My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.’Isaiah 12:2 – Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation.’Isaiah 17:2 – The cities of Aroer will be deserted and left to flocks, which will lie down, with no one to make them afraid.Isaiah 26:3 – You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.Isaiah 35:4 – say to those with fearful hearts, ‘Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.’Isaiah 37:6 – Isaiah said to them, ‘Tell your master, “This is what the Lord says: do not be afraid of what you have heard – those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.’Isaiah 40:9 – You who bring good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, ‘Here is your God!’Isaiah 41:10 – So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.Isaiah 41:13 – For I am the Lord you God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, ‘Do not fear; I will help you.’Isaiah 41:14 – ‘Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, little Israel, do not fear, for I myself will help you’ declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 43:1 – But now, this is what the Lord says – he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.’Isaiah 43:5 – Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west.Isaiah 44:2 – This is what the Lord says – he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.Isaiah 44:8 – Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.’Isaiah 51:7 – ‘Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart: do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults’Isaiah 54:4 – ‘Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.’Isaiah 54:14 – In righteousness you will be established: tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.Jeremiah 1:8 – ‘Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,’ declares the LordJeremiah 10:5 – Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do you no harm nor can they do any good.’Jeremiah 17:8 – They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.’Jeremiah 30:10 – “So do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant; do not be dismayed, Israel,” declares the Lord. “I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid.”Jeremiah 40:9 – Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath to reassure them and their men. ‘Do not be afraid to serve the Babylonians,’ he said. ‘Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.’Jeremiah 42:11 – Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear. Do not be afraid of him, declares the Lord, for I am with you and will save you and deliver you from his hands.Jeremiah 46:27 – ‘Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant; do not be dismayed, Israel. I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid.’Jeremiah 46:28 – Do not be afraid, Jacobmy servant, for I am with you; declares the Lord. ‘Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.’Jeremiah 51:46 – Do not lose heart or be afraid when rumours are heard in the land; one rumour comes this year, another the next, rumours of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.Lamentations 3:57 – You came near when I called you and you said. ‘Do not fear.’Ezekiel 3:9 – I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.Daniel 10:12 – Then he continued, ‘Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.’Daniel 10:19 – ‘Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed,’ he said. ‘Peace! Be strong now; be strong;’ When he spoke tome, I was strengthened and said, ‘Speak , my lord, since you have given me strength.’Joel 2:21-22 – Do not be afraid, land of Judah; be glad and rejoice. Surely the Lord has done great things! Do not be afraid, you wild animals, for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig-tree and the vine yield their riches.Zephaniah 3:16 – On that day they will say to Jerusalem, ‘Do not fear, Zion; do not let your hands hang limp.’Haggai 2:5 – “This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.”Zechariah 8:13 – ‘Just as you, Judah and Israel, have been a curse among the nations, so I will save you and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.’Zechariah 8:15 – ‘so now I have determined to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.’Malachi 3:5 – So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud labourers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me’, says the Lord Almighty.Matthew 1:20 – But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.’Matthew 6:25-34 – Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes: Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grown. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you – you of little faith? So do not worry, saying “What shallwe eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans runafter all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness , and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.Matthew 10:19 – But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say.Matthew 10:26 – ‘So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.’Matthew 10:28 – Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.Matthew 10:31 – So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.Matthew 14:27 – But Jesus immediately said to them: ‘Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.’Matthew 17:7 – But Jesus came and touched them. ‘Get up,’ he said. ‘Don’t be afraid.’Matthew 28:5 – The angel said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.’Matthew 28:10 – Then Jesus said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to to go Galilee; there they will see me.’Mark 5:36 – Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, ‘Don’t be afraid; just believe.’Mark 6:50 – because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke to them and said, ‘Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.’Mark 13:11 – Whenever you are arrested and brought to trail, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.Luke 1:13 – But the angel said to him: ‘Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.’Luke 1:30 – But the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favour with God.’Luke 2:10 – But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.’Luke 5:10 – and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, ‘Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.’Luke 8:50 – Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, ‘Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.’Luke 12:4 – ‘I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.’Luke 12:7 – Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.Luke 12:11 – When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say,Luke 12:32 – ‘Do not be afraid, little flock,for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.’.John 6:20 – But he said to them, ‘It is I; don’t be afraid.’John 12:15 – ‘Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt’John 14:27 – Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.John 16:33 – ‘I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.’Acts 18:9 – One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: ‘Do not be afraid; keep onspeaking, do not be silent.’Acts 20:10 – Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms round him. ‘Don’t be alarmed,’ he said, ‘He’s alive!’Acts 27:24 – and said, “Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar; and God has graciously given you the lives of all who sail with you.”Romans 5:1 – Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,Hebrews 13:6 – So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?’Philippians 4:6 – Do not be anxious about anything but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.I Peter 3:6 – like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.I Peter 3:14 – But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. ‘Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.’1 Peter 5:7 – Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.1 John 4:18 – There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.Revelation 1:17 – When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: ‘Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.’Revelation 2:10 – Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the pointof death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.