11 translations · Greek
1 John 4:18
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.
1 John 4:18 in 11 translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.
- ASV 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.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and he who is fearing has not been made perfect in love;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Where there is love there can be no fear. God loves us completely, and this love drives all our fears away. If we do fear, it's because we fear being punished, and this shows that we have not been fully remade by the completeness of God's love.
- YLT Young’s 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;
- DBY 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.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- 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.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- 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.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Φόβος | Phobos | fear | G5401 φόβος fear |
| οὐκ | ouk | no | G3756 οὐ no |
| ἔστιν | estin | There is | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| τῇ | tē | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀγάπῃ | agapē | love | G26 ἀγάπη love |
| ἀλλ’ | all’ | but | G235 ἀλλά but |
| ἡ | hē | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| τελεία | teleia | perfect | G5046 τέλειος perfect |
| ἀγάπη | agapē | love | G26 ἀγάπη love |
| ἔξω | exō | out | G1854 ἔξω out/outside(r) |
| βάλλει | ballei | drives | G906 βάλλω to throw: throw |
| τὸν | ton | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| φόβον | phobon | fear | G5401 φόβος fear |
| ὅτι | hoti | because | G3754 ὅτι that/since: that |
| ὁ | ho | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| φόβος | phobos | fear | G5401 φόβος fear |
| κόλασιν | kolasin | punishment | G2851 κόλασις punishment |
| ἔχει | echei | involves | G2192 ἔχω to have/be |
| ὁ | ho | The [one who] | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| δὲ | de | — | G1161 δέ then |
| φοβούμενος | phoboumenos | fears | G5399 φοβέω to fear |
| οὐ | ou | — | G3756 οὐ no |
| τετελείωται | teteleiōtai | has not been perfected | G5048 τελειόω to perfect |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| τῇ | tē | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀγάπῃ | agapē | love | G26 ἀγάπη love |
Related verses
- 2 Timothy 1:7
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
- Romans 8:15
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
- 1 John 4:12
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
- Luke 1:74–75
to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
- Hebrews 12:28
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
- James 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
- Psalm 119:120
My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.
- Psalm 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
- Job 15:21
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
- Psalm 88:15–16
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
18 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.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Read all of 1 John 4 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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