Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
There is no fear in love; but
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,
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 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.
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.
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;
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Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 John 4:18
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:18
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Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
17 Our love will be manifested in all its perfection by our having complete confidence on the day of the Judgement; because just what He is, we also are in the world. 18 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. 19 We love because God first loved us.
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Cross References
2 Timothy 1:7
For the Spirit which God has given us is not a spirit of cowardice, but one of power and of love and of sound judgement.
Romans 8:15
You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!"
Hebrews 12:28
Therefore, receiving, as we now do, a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us cherish thankfulness so that we may ever offer to God an acceptable service, with godly reverence and awe.
Luke 1:74-75
To grant us to be rescued from the power of our foes And so render worship to Him free from fear,
1 John 4:12
No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.
James 2:19
You believe that God is one, and you are quite right: evil spirits also believe this, and shudder."