1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

17Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as *he* is, *we* also are in this world.

19*We* love because *he* has first loved us.

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Cross References

Job 15:21The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.

Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.

Luke 1:74to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear

2 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.

James 2:19*Thou* believest that God is one. Thou doest well. The demons even believe, and tremble.

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 →

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