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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]. Christian Standard Bible
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world.
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
If God’s love is made perfect in us, then we can be without fear on the day God judges us. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like him. Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love takes away fear.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
19 paź 2023 · When we experience God’s love and share his love with others, we need not fear. In this verse fear is used to describe all fears, rather the fear of punishment. A Christian might have other fears, the Bible talks about those elsewhere.
