1 John 4:18
Fear is not in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear holds punishment, and he who is afraid has not been fully perfected in love.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19We love him, because he first loved us.
Cross References
Job 15:21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.
Luke 1:74without fear from the hand of our enemies, having been saved to serve him
2 Timothy 1:7For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of soberness.
James 2:19Thou believe that there is one God, thou do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:18-21
The Divine Love. ( a. d. 80.) 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us. 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this… Read the whole commentary →