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NASB | 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love [dread does not exist]. But perfect (complete, full-grown) love drives out fear, because fear involves [the expectation of divine] punishment, so the one who is afraid [of God's judgment] is not perfected in love [has not grown into a sufficient understanding of God's love]. |
Subject: God loves that you love |
Bible Note: I believe my previous answers should help clarify things for you. In the verse 17 he says by this . . .by what? In the verse 16 he says And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God and God in him. What is the love of God . . . the doing of his commandments . . . what commandments? Love your neighbor as yourself. Then God would live in you. Can God and fear(timidity)live together . . . emphatically no. Why? 2Tim 1:7, Eze. 36:26-27 (A new heart also will i give to you and a new spirit will i put within you; I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh. and I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my status and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.) So when we keep His judgment, we are perfected in Him . . . no wonder He said so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment . . .what confidence? that we are not condemned (Rom 8:1) |