Where is the scripture perfect love casteth out all fear?
Moroni 8:16
“As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And ‘perfect love casteth out all fear’ (Moroni 8:16).
What does the Bible say about casting out fear?
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.”
What is the meaning of there is no fear in love?
Here in 1 John, there is no “fear” in love, meaning that there is no bad fear in love. This verse is not contradicting Jesus’ teaching that we should have a fear of God. Love, this love, (the love that has been perfected and is confident at the Judgment) has no fear in it.
Where God’s love is there is no fear?
Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love takes away fear. It is his punishment that makes a person fear. So his love is not made perfect in the one who has fear.
What does the Bible mean by perfect love?
Perfect love is Jesus, God wrapped in human flesh. Perfect Love goes to any length to save and any height to reach. Perfect Love calls the prisoner His brother, redeems him and sets him free. Perfect Love is complete, all consuming, with no traces of doubt in the power of the Holy One.
What does the Bible say about perfect love?
“There 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. We love because He first loved us.”
What is the greatest love of God?
Agape (pronounced ah-gah-pay) is “unconditional love with reverence,” and was taught as the greatest love by the earliest Christians. This love is God’s love – regardless of what the person does for us, whether or not they’re attractive, or whether or not they are our equal. Jesus said to love all.
What does perfected in love mean?
If you have a desire to want to love deeper, that is God perfecting love in you. If you are concerned by ways you fail at loving others, that conviction comes from God preparing you to be perfect in love.
How can you love God with all your mind?
To “love the Lord thy God with all thy mind” is done when our thoughts dwell on Him; and His holiness, and goodness, and love, and mercy, and beauty… Then we reply to His perfection with prayer, praise, perhaps a song, and worship “in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23).
What does it mean that perfect love casts out fear?
It refers to a self-sacrificial, unconditional love, full of good will toward its object. To say that “perfect love casts out fear” is to say that “mature, completed, unconditional love that wants the best for you casts out fear.” God is the only one who has such love.
Is Love made perfect in a person who is afraid?
There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear. So then, love has not been made perfect in anyone who is afraid, because fear has to do with punishment. No fear exists where his love is. Rather, perfect love gets rid of fear, because fear involves punishment.
First John 4:18 says that “perfect love casts out fear.” The whole verse says this: “There is no fear in love. But perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” The context here is important: verse 17 says,…
Is there no fear in love?
“There 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” (1 John 4:18). If, as a child of God, we still fear God’s punishment, we have not yet reached the point of maturity in love.