1 John 4:18
Love has no room for fear; instead, complete love throws fear out, because fear has to do with punishment, and anyone who is afraid has not been brought to completion in love.
Treated in 14 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- A Body of Divinity ·
A Believer's Privilege at Death cites I John 4:18
…Fear. Fear is the ague of the soul, which sets it shaking. ‘There is torment in fear.’ I John 4:18. Fear is like Prometheus’s vulture gnawing the heart. There is a mistrustful fear, a fear…
- The Key Teachings of Julia A. J. Foote ·
Every Temper Contrary to Love cites 1 JOHN 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. 1 JOHN 4:18 The word perfection frightens people, and not without reason. It sounds like a claim to…
- Communion with God ·
Of communion with Christ in privileges cites 1 John iv. 18
…this is a great share of their son-like freedom in obedience. It gives them joy in it. 1 John iv. 18, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.” When their soul is acted…
- Thoughts for the Quiet Hour ·
April cites 1 John iv. 18
…from all that can hurt or trouble it.—Smith. April 23 Perfect love casteth out fear. 1 John iv. 18. Fear and love rise up in antagonism to each other as motives in life, like those two…
- The Practice of the Presence of God (For Teens) ·
Four Years of Fear cites 1 John 4:18
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.” — 1 John 4:18 (KJV) Here is something you might not expect from a man people called a saint. For years…
- Daughters of the King – 30 Days with God for Girls – Book 2 ·
Day 6 — Perfect Love Drives Out Fear cites 1 John 4:18
…because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.” — 1 John 4:18 (BSB) What’s the opposite of fear? You might say courage or bravery. But John says…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 2 — Of Faith cites 1 John 4:18
…“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear has torment,” (1 John 4:18). For he is speaking of the fear of unbelief, between which and the fear of believers…
- The Key Teachings of Amanda Berry Smith ·
Neither Bond nor Free cites 1 JOHN 4:18
…casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 1 JOHN 4:18 She saw at once what was wrong. It was fear — fear of her pastor and of the people. Her…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.8 The Eighth Commandment cites 1 John 4: 18
…garment, he is afraid it is the officer to apprehend him; and fear has torment in it. 1 John 4: 18. (4) The judgements that follow this sin. Achan the thief was stoned to death. Josh 7…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XI. It is no sign that affections are right, or that they are wrong, that they make persons that have them exceeding confident that what they experience is divine, and that they are in a good estate cites 1 John 4:18
…quite drives away all fear, and gives full assurance; agreeable to that of the apostle, 1 John 4:18, “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.” These two opposite…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites 1 John 4:18
…and again told us that love was made perfect in keeping Christ's commandments, observes, 1 John 4:18. That perfect love casteth out fear; meaning (at least in part) love made perfect in this…
- A Plain Account of Christian Perfection ·
Sections 26-28 cites 1 John 4:18
…while to contend for a term. It is ‘salvation from sin.’ “(7.) It is ‘perfect love.’ (1 John 4:18.) This is the essence of it; its properties, or inseparable fruits, are, rejoicing…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Covenant of Works cites I John 4:18
…Sin breeds a trembling at the heart; it creates fears, and there is ‘torment in fear.’ I John 4:18. Sin makes sad convulsions in the conscience. Judas was so terrified with guilt and…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Man's Misery by the Fall cites I John 4:18
…the putrid matter of sin. Whence all our fears but from sin? ‘There is torment in fear.’ I John 4:18. Fear is the ague of the soul, sets it shaking; some fear want, others alarms, others…