Verse 7

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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 4:18 : 18 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.
  • John 14:27 : 27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.
  • Acts 1:8 : 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • Zech 4:6 : 6 Therefore he told me,“This is the LORD’s message to Zerubbabel:‘Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Prov 2:7 : 7 He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,
  • Luke 10:19 : 19 Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.
  • Heb 2:15 : 15 and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.
  • Luke 24:49 : 49 And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • Rom 5:5 : 5 And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
  • 1 Cor 2:4 : 4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 May I be fully committed to your statutes, so that I might not be ashamed.
  • Acts 6:8 : 8 Stephen is Arrested Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.
  • Col 1:8 : 8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.
  • Prov 8:14 : 14 Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me; I possess understanding and might.
  • Mic 3:8 : 8 But I am full of the courage that the LORD’s Spirit gives, and have a strong commitment to justice. This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion, and Israel with its sin.
  • Luke 8:35 : 35 So the people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus. They found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul replied,“What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
  • Acts 10:38 : 38 with respect to Jesus from Nazareth, that God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.
  • Acts 26:25 : 25 But Paul replied,“I have not lost my mind, most excellent Festus, but am speaking true and rational words.
  • Acts 9:22 : 22 But Saul became more and more capable, and was causing consternation among the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.
  • Luke 15:17 : 17 But when he came to his senses he said,‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!
  • 2 Cor 5:13-14 : 13 For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
  • Acts 26:11 : 11 I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.