18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.


In Context

15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

18 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.

19 We love him, because he first loved us.

20 If a man says, |I love God,| and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

1 John 4:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:18There 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18There 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:18There 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth, is not made perfect in love.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.