The article focuses on Martin Luther wrote the following explanation to the First Commandment in "Small Catechism". It mentions meaning of fear is the most common one in the Newer Testament and it goes together with love and trust as three interrelated dimensions of the life of faith. It also mentions fear of social and political ascendancy on the part of freed African American slaves led to the cruelties of the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow segregation.