1 John 4:18

Fear in love is not: but perfect love hath cast out fear, because fear is in terror. He who feareth is not perfect in love.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

17And in this is his love perfected with us, that openness of face we might have in the day of judgment; because that as He was, so also we are in this world.

19We then will love Aloha, because he hath first loved us.

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Cross References

Luke 1:74That to us he would grant That, being delivered from the hand of our adversaries, Without fear we might serve before him

2 Timothy 1:7For Aloha hath not given to us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of discipline.

James 2:19Thou believest that Aloha is one: thou doest well; the demons also 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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