1 John 4:18

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There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been made perfect in love.

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  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father.'
  • 1 John 4:12 : 12 No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
  • Luke 1:74-75 : 74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, would serve Him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,
  • Job 15:21 : 21 Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity, the destroyer will come upon him.

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  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.

    17In this, love has been made complete with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world.

  • 1 John 4:19-21
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    19We love because He first loved us.

    20If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates their brother or sister, they are a liar. For the one who does not love their brother or sister whom they have seen cannot love God whom they have not seen.

    21And this commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love their brother or sister.

  • 1 John 4:6-13
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    6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this, we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

    7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

    8The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    9By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

    10In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

    13By this, we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

  • 2 Tim 1:7
    73%

    7For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5But whoever keeps His word, truly in that person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them.

  • 1 John 4:4
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    4You are from God, little children, and you have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • 1 John 3:18-21
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    18Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

    19By this we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts in His presence.

    20For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

    21Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God.

  • Rom 3:18
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    18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

  • Rom 8:39
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    39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • 1 John 5:2-4
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    2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and keeping His commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

    4For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

  • 1 John 3:16
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    16This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

  • Rom 5:5
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    5And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

  • Rom 8:1
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    1So now, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

  • 1 John 1:4-5
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    4We write these things to you so that your joy may be fully complete.

    5This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

  • Rom 13:10
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    10Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.

  • Rom 8:37
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    37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • 1 Cor 13:10
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    10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

  • Rom 8:35
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    35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

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    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

  • 1 Thess 4:18
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    18Therefore, encourage one another with these words.

  • Matt 10:28
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    28Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

  • 1 John 2:10
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    10Whoever loves their brother or sister abides in the light, and in them there is no cause for stumbling.

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    5You know that He appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

  • 1 Cor 13:4
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    4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.

    11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3But if anyone loves God, they are known by Him.

  • Ps 34:9
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    9Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him.

  • Ps 130:4
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    4But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.