1 John 4:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”
  • 1 John 4:12 : 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
  • Luke 1:74-75 : 74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.
  • Job 15:21 : 21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

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    16And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

    17By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

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

    20If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

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

    7God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

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

    9By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

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

    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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  • 2 Tim 1:7
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    7For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

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    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

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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 him,

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    4You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

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    18Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

    19And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

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    2By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

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    16We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

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    37No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

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