1 John 4:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

1 John 4:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is no fear in love - Love is not an affection which produces fear. In the love which we have for a parent, a child, a friend, there is no fear. If a man had perfect love to God, he would ha...
1 John 4:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

There is no (k) fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. (k) If we understand by love, that we are in God, and God in...
1 John 4:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

John returns to the theme of 1 John 3:14 ff., be cause if the Church is the home of truth, still more is it the home of love. The evidence for our Divine sonship is that the love manifested by God...
1 John 4:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

no . not, 1 John 4:3 . perfect . App-125. torment . punishment. Greek. kolasia. See Matthew 25:46 .
1 John 4:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18 There is no fear He now commends the excellency of this blessing by stating the contrary effect, for he says that we are continually tormented until God delivers us from misery and anguis...
1 John 4:18 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2460 INFLUENCE AND IMPORTANCE OF LOVE 1 John 4:18 . 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...
1 John 4:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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. There is no fear in love - The man who feels that he loves God wit...
1 John 4:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

There is no fear in love, &c.— "This perfect love is of such a delightful nature, that though it be ever attended with a holy filial reverence of God, and cautious filial fear of offending; yet...
1 John 4:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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. Fear has no place in love. Bold confidence ( 1 John 4:17 ),...
1 John 4:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Fellowship with God in Love 1. Try the spirits] RV 'Prove the spirits.' The verb is used of testing metals. 2, 3 . See on 2 John 1:7 .
1 John 4:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

THE PERFECT LOVE THE SUREST TEST ( 1 John 4:7-21 ). ( a ) Fraternal love the necessary product of the true knowledge of God, because God is love ( 1 John 4:7-8 ). ( b ) The grand recent histor...
1 John 4:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Test of Our Love 1 John 4:12-21 If we are willing to be channels through which God's love flows to others, there need be no limit to the fullness of that holy current. In humility, selfless...
1 John 4:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Two closely related perils threaten our fellowship with God as love, false prophets and the spirit which actuates them. Teaching is to be tested by the indwelling Spirit. All who refuse to confess th...
1 John 4:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. (8) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (9) In this was manifested the...
1 John 4:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

FEAR AND ITS ANTIDOTE ‘Happy is the man that feareth alway.’ ‘Perfect love casteth out fear.’ Proverbs 28:14 (with 1 John 4:18 ). Fear has a place in the Gospel, may we but find it. The obj...
1 John 4:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

There is no fear in love ,.... In the love of the brethren; where that is, there is no fear: so far as that prevails and gains ground, fear removes; not the filial fear of God, the new covenant grac...
1 John 4:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 18. There is no fear in love ] But complacence and acquie...
1 John 4:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

There is no fear in love No slavish or tormenting fear, diffidence, or distrust, can be where love reigns; but perfect , mature love casteth out such fear, because such fear hath torment And...
1 John 4:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

But there must be guards as to the operation of the Spirit of God, that is, the child of God must be guarded against all that would imitate the operation of the Spirit. Satan is extremely cunning, an...
1 John 4:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Divine Love. A. D. 80. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in...
1 John 4:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That he proveth from the contrary natures of fear and love. The fear which is of the baser kind, viz. that is servile, and depresses the spirit, hath no place with love, but is excluded by it, by the...
1 John 4:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, bec...
1 John 4:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 4:15 . Son of God .—St. John was jealous of the double truth of the person of Jesus—His Divinity and His humanity. 1 John 4:17 . Made perfect .—Or reaches...
1 John 4:18 - Scofield Reference Notes

perfect ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 5:48 ).
1 John 4:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 4:18 I. We can scarcely conceive how anything could live in such a world as this that had not the element of fear. For surely every part of life, not alone of the human family, but down to...
1 John 4:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 4:1 . Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. If John had need to say that in the early mor...
1 John 4:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 4:1 . Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God. Whether those teachers believe that Christ is come in the flesh, which to the present hour the unbelieving jews...
1 John 4:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 John 4:1 - 1 John 5:12 (2) The source of son-ship. Possession of the Spirit. 1 John 4:1-62 Confession of the Incarnation is the assurance that the Spirit of God,...
1 John 4:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Perfection in brotherly love:
1 John 4:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:12 ; 2 Timothy 1:7 ; Hebrews 12:28 ; James 2:19 ; Job 15:21 ; Luke 1:74 ; Luke 1:75 ; Psalms 119:120 ; Psalms 73:19 ; Psalms 88:15 ; Psalms 88:16 ; Romans 8:15
1 John 4:18 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Testing the True and the False 1 John 4:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have in our opening verses some important admonitions, and also some important instructions. 1. Important admonitions. (1...
1 John 4:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

There is no fear in love — No slavish fear can be where love reigns. But perfect, adult love casteth out slavish fear: because such fear hath torment — And so is inconsistent with the happiness of...

1 John 4:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 John 4:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 John 4:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 John 4:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:18 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 John 4:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 John 4:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 John 4:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 John 4:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 John 4:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 John 4:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 John 4:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 John 4:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 John 4:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 John 4:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 John 4:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 4:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 John 4:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 John 4:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 4:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 John 4:18 - Scofield Reference Notes

1 John 4:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 4:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 4:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 4:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 John 4:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 John 4:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:18 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 John 4:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes