1 John 4:18

Pachad (fear) is not in ahavah, but the ahavah hashleimah casts out pachad, because pachad has to do with pachad of the onesh (punishment) and the one with pachad has not been perfected in ahavah.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

17By this has the ahavah become shleimah with us, that we may have bitachon in the Yom HaDin, because as that One is, so we are also in the Olam Hazeh.

19We have ahavah because rishonah He had ahavah for us.

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Cross References

Job 15:21A dreadful sound is in his oznayim; 1 during shalom the shoded (destroyer) shall come upon him. 1

Psalms 88:15Hashem, why castest Thou off my nefesh? 1 Why hidest Thou Thy face from me? 1

Luke 1:74Having been delivered from the yad haoyvim (hand of enemies) of us to serve Hashem fearlessly,

2 Timothy 1:7For Hashem did not bestow upon us a ruach of pachad (terror), but of gevurah (miraculous power) and of ahavah (love) and of sound havchanah (judgment).

James 2:19So you're impressed with yourselves that with your emunah you can recite the kri'at Shema, nu? O you do so well… why, even the shedim have your da'as and emunah! But they shudder! + 2:19 Dt 6:4

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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