On the contrary, when you love each other with “perfect love” (i.e., with the love of God overflowing and being completed in action) — when you love each other like this, it casts out fear! It was always destined to be a marathon. As a track and field athlete, I can attest to the exhilaration of the 100-meter dash. He that fears is not made perfect in love.

Perfect Love Casts Out Fear from 1 John 4:18 "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.

We rest in that Perfect Love which Casts Out All Fear! loving one another) is an act of obedience to God's commandment and whoever obeys or hearkens to God's voice shall dwell in safety, no evil shall befall him.

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He has shown me his love by having Jesus die for me. This is because fear punishes and defrauds us but love rewards us with blessings. It all begins with the love of God. It says, “If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.” Following the normal usage of the word, we would take this to mean not that our love for each other is a flawless expression of God’s love, but that it is God’s love being put into action — God’s love reaching its appointed goal in practical human love.

To sum up verse 17, we can paraphrase it like this: when you love each other with love that is more than just talk, when the love of God reaches its practical goal of action in your life, you will experience a deep and unshakable confidence before God. The nuclear holocaust would only snuff out life that is temporary and earthly; but the holocaust of divine wrath will snuff out eternal life and will bring a misery to unbelievers that is worse than any disease caused by nuclear radiation. When we try to say that we are indwelt by the Spirit of Christ, and yet we do not devote our lives to the eternal good of other people, there is a deep contradiction within that gnaws away at our souls and dissolves our confidence and leaves us feeling weak and inauthentic. The Lord has warned us so clearly: it is appointed unto man once to die and after that comes judgment (Hebrews 9:27). In verse 17 John tells us how to have confidence or boldness on the day of judgment. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. He says that his labors of love on behalf of the lost have been healthful activity. So our confidence before God on the day of judgment is based on the blood of Jesus as the atoning force that takes away all our sins, and on a certain kind of “walk” — not because this walk atones for our sins at all, but because it confirms the genuineness of our faith. Now if you feel such Agape Love, show it with this Tee shirt. A registered nurse, Cynthia recently released her new book, Widows Are Warriors. “Perfect love” is love that does not die on the vine. There may be reverential fear, but there is no terror. If we have been on the right track so far, we can say that a person “perfected in love” is not a person who loves flawlessly. My anxiety and panic was coming from a rejection of myself for having it. As I imagined Father God pouring His perfect love into me, I kept thinking about that Scripture: “Perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18). - King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan 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. Verse 17 tells us how to have something everybody wants to have. Amen. While I approach God with reverence and awe because he is the holy and majestic God, I don’t have to fear his presence.

But perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. He that feareth, is not made perfect in love. For fear has to do with punishment.” In other words, the reason there is no fear in love is that there is no threat of punishment for being a loving person. There is no feare in loue, but perfect loue casteth out feare: because feare hath torment: hee that feareth, is not made perfect in loue.- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible ScanThere 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.- New American Standard Version (1995)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.- American Standard Version (1901)There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.- Basic English BibleThere is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.- Darby BibleThere is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. Used by permission. I hope that when you feel an impulse to save the world from the bomb, you will enlarge your heart to long for the eternal salvation of your neighbor and the millions of unreached peoples of the world. It needs the same depth and breadth of theology we all need.

A perfect kind of Love is a child's Love, always trusting with no questions asked that is the Love required to us from God. Holy and Righteous Father, I thank you for your overwhelming love demonstrated to me in Jesus. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.