1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and he who is fearing has not been made perfect in love;

Literal Standard Version

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

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

19we love Him, because He first loved us;

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Cross References

Job 15:21A fearful voice [is] in his ears, || In peace a destroyer comes to him.

Psalms 88:15I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, || I have borne Your terrors—I pine away.

Luke 1:74To give to us, without fear, || Having been delivered out of the hand of our enemies,

2 Timothy 1:7for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

James 2:19You believe that God is one; you 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 →

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