1 John 4:18
Where there is love there can be no fear. God loves us completely, and this love drives all our fears away. If we do fear, it's because we fear being punished, and this shows that we have not been fully remade by the completeness of God's love.
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In Context
19We love because he loved us first.
Cross References
Job 15:21Terrifying sounds fill their ears; even when they think they're safe, the destroyer will attack them.
Psalms 88:15I have been sick since I was young, often at death's door. I have had to bear the terrible things you've done to me. I'm in despair!
Luke 1:74He gives us freedom from fear and rescues us from our enemies,
2 Timothy 1:7God didn't give us a spirit that makes us fearful, but a spirit of power and love and good sense.
James 2:19You believe that God is one God? That's great—but demons believe in God too, and they're scared of him!
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 →