But lest someone be tempted to say that since trusting God is mainly found in the Old Testament, it is not really important today, we must emphasize that the New Testament often assumes what the Old Testament has already established. Thus the New Testament assumes such virtues as trusting God because it was clearly taught in the Old Testament. Fearing God When we come to the subject of the fear of God, the Bible speaks of it 278 times! We are referring to all the places in Scripture where it speaks