1 John 4:18

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

Young's Literal 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

17In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we — we also are in this world;

19we — we love him, because He — He first loved us;

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Cross References

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

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

Luke 1:74To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,

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 2:19thou — thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they 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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