1 John 4:17

Good News Translation

Love is made perfect in us in order that we may have courage on the Judgment Day; and we will have it because our life in this world is the same as Christ's.

Cross References

Matthew 10:15

I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah than to the people of that town!

Matthew 10:25

So a pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, the members of the family will be called even worse names!

Matthew 11:22

I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to the people of Tyre and Sidon than to you!

Matthew 11:24

You can be sure that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to Sodom than to you!”

Matthew 12:36

“You can be sure that on the Judgment Day you will have to give account of every useless word you have ever spoken.

John 15:20

Remember what I told you: ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.

John 17:22

I gave them the same glory you gave me, so that they may be one, just as you and I are one:

Romans 8:29

Those whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first among many believers.

Hebrews 9:27

Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God.

James 2:13

For God will not show mercy when he judges the person who has not been merciful; but mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 2:22

Can't you see? His faith and his actions worked together; his faith was made perfect through his actions.

2 Peter 2:9

And so the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the Day of Judgment,

2 Peter 3:7

But the heavens and the earth that now exist are being preserved by the same command of God, in order to be destroyed by fire. They are being kept for the day when godless people will be judged and destroyed.

1 John 2:28

Yes, my children, remain in union with him, so that when he appears we may be full of courage and need not hide in shame from him on the Day he comes.

1 John 2:5

But if we obey his word, we are the ones whose love for God has really been made perfect. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:

1 John 2:6

if we say that we remain in union with God, we should live just as Jesus Christ did.

1 John 3:1

See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children—and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God.

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure, just as Christ is pure.

1 John 3:7

Let no one deceive you, my children! Whoever does what is right is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.