Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment. He who fears has not been perfected in love.

New American Standard Bible

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.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love.

International Standard Version

There is no fear where love exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.

A Conservative Version

Fear is not in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear holds punishment, and he who is afraid has not been fully perfected in love.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified

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].

An Understandable Version

There is no [reason for] fear if one [really] loves, but a complete love removes fear [from us] because fear produces punishment [i.e., mental anxiety], and the person who is [always] afraid does not have a complete love.

Anderson New Testament

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

Bible in Basic English

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.

Common New Testament

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. And he who fears is not made perfect in love.

Daniel Mace New Testament

Fear is a stranger to love; for perfect loves excludes all fear: since pain is the object of fear, he that is affected with fear, cannot be sincere in his love.

Darby Translation

There 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.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment: therefore, he who fears is not made perfect in love.

Godbey New Testament

There is no fear in divine love; but perfect divine love casts out the fear: because the fear has torment; and the one fearing has not been made perfect in the divine love.

Goodspeed New Testament

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear. For fear suggests punishment and no one who feels fear has attained perfect love.

John Wesley New Testament

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment.

Julia Smith Translation

Fear is not in love; but perfected love casts out fear: for fear has restraint. And he fearing has not been perfected in love.

King James 2000

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has to do with punishment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[There] is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear includes punishment, and the one who is afraid has not been perfected in love.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out all fear, for fear hath painfulness. He therefore that feareth is not perfect in love.

Moffatt New Testament

Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment ??anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.

Montgomery New Testament

Fear does not exist in love; but love, when it is perfect, drives out fear. For fear has always torment, and he who has fear is not yet perfected in love.

NET Bible

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

New Heart English Bible

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.

Noyes New Testament

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Sawyer New Testament

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

The Emphasized Bible

Fear, existeth not, in love, but, perfect love, casteth fear, outside; because, fear, hath correction: he that feareth, hath not been made perfect, in love.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Fear is not in this love; but the perfect love casteth out fear: for fear hath anguish. He that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

Twentieth Century New Testament

There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, for fear implies punishment, and the man who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love.

Williams New Testament

There is no fear in love, and perfect love drives out fear, because fear pertains to punishment, and no one who is subject to fear has attained perfection in love.

World English Bible

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.

Worrell New Testament

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

Worsley New Testament

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment; but he that feareth is not perfected in love.

Youngs Literal Translation

fear 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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
There is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

no
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

φόβος 
Phobos 
φόβος 
Phobos 
φόβος 
Phobos 
Usage: 46
Usage: 46
Usage: 46

in
ἐν 
En 
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128

ἀγάπη 
Agape 
ἀγάπη 
Agape 
Usage: 105
Usage: 105

but
ἀλλά 
Alla 
but, yea, yet, nevertheless, howbeit, nay, therefore, save, not tr,
Usage: 461

τέλειος 
Teleios 
Usage: 16

βάλλω 
Ballo 
Usage: 66

out
ἔξω 
Exo 
Usage: 50

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

κόλασις 
Kolasis 
Usage: 1

φοβέω 
Phobeo 
fear, be afraid, be afraid of, reverence,
Usage: 68

is
τελειόω 
Teleioo 
Usage: 18

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

τελειόω 
Teleioo 
Usage: 18

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 John 4:18

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Context Readings

God's Love Revealed

17 In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that as He is, so also we are in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment. He who fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

Cross References

2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Romans 8:15

For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba, Father!

Hebrews 12:28

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear,

Luke 1:74-75

that He would grant to us, that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear

1 John 4:12

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

Job 15:21

A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the destroyer shall come to him in peace.

Psalm 73:19

How have they been brought into grief, as in a moment! They are fully eaten up with terrors,

Psalm 88:15-16

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors, I pine away.

Psalm 119:120

My flesh trembles in fear of You; and I am afraid of Your judgments.

James 2:19

You believe that there is one God, you do well; even the demons believe and tremble.

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