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Luke 12:5

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

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But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear, I will be your monitor, and direct you to the proper object of fear and reverence, and whom you should be careful to displease and offend:

fear him, which after he hath killed; your body, as the Persic version adds; hath taken away the life of it, by separating soul and body asunder, by sending one disease or another, or death in one shape or another:

hath power to cast into hell; your soul, as the above version also adds; yea, to destroy both body and soul in hell, as in

[See comments on Matthew 10:28]

yea, I say unto you, fear him; and none else, not with a servile, but with a filial fear.

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