1 John 4:18
“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.”
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
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.
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.
We love him, because he first loved us.
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?
Counter-Arguments
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Cross-References
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
“No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.”
“That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,”