AC 2826 - "Fear of God"

AC 2826 [13]

. . . the "fear of God" is worship,
either from fear,
or from the good of faith,
or from the good of love.
But the more there is of fear in the worship,
the less there is of faith,
and the less still of love;
and on the other hand,
the more of faith there is in the worship,
and especially the more there is of love,
the less there is of fear.
There is indeed a fear within all worship,
but under another appearance
and another condition,
and this is holy fear.
But holy fear is not so much
the fear of hell and of damnation,
as it is of doing or thinking anything against the Lord
and against the neighbor,
and thus anything against
the good of love and the truth of faith.
It is an aversion,
which is the boundary
of the holy of love and the holy of faith
on the one side;
and as it is not a fear of hell and damnation,
as before said,
those have it who are in the good of faith;
but those have less of it
who are in the good of love,
that is, who are in the Lord.