There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.
Terrifying sounds are in their ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.
My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
But the Pharisees were saying, “By the ruler of the demons he casts out the demons.”
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”
for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe,
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.