New Testament · SCRIPTURE
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 perfected in love.
BSB text & permissions
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.
KJV text & permissions
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
ASV text & permissions
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment; and the [one] fearing has not been perfected in love.
BLB text & permissions
READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
1 John 4
16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
17 In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.
18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.
19 We love because He first loved us.
20 If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
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