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1 John 4:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love.

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for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”

No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe;

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.

My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.

How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the prince of demons.”