The fear of the Lord is respect or "reverence". But what is lost is the fear where if you sin you will be punished. Is this New Testament?
7: Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith,
To day if ye will hear his voice,
8: Harden not your hearts,
as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10: Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11: So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12: Take heed, brethren,
lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13: But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14: For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15: While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16: For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17: But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18: And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19: So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Heb. 3:7-19
Notice this warning is directed at the believers! It is based upon what? When God punished Israel for their sins against him. These who's bodies fell in the wilderness is what Paul is wanting us to pay attention to.
If you sin you might die.
Can I give a second witness?
1: Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2: And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3: And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4: And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5: But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6: Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7: Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8: Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed,
and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9: Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were
destroyed of serpents.
10: Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were
destroyed of the destroyer.
11: Now all these things happened unto them for
ensamples: and they are written for
our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
1 Cor. 10:1-11
Its the same thing! The Spirit of God warns the New Testament disciple that if they sin they could indeed be punished quick and severe.
These
EXAMPLES are given to
US who live at the end of the world!
Now all these things happened unto them for
ensamples: and they are written for
our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
To reject this truth is very dangerous. The Spirit of God has given us these warnings for a reason. To
HIM fear is an excellent motivator.
1: Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Cor. 7:1
My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. 
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