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Perfect love casts out fear is 1 John 4:18. Read the verse, what perfect love means, and why fear has to do with punishment.

Learn how perfect love casts out fear, find courage through Scripture, trust God, overcome fear, and build biblical confidence.

Matthew 5:48 says, "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Read it (NIV, KJV), what the Greek word for perfect means, its context in Matthew 5, and a plain reading.

1 John 4:18 meaning: perfect love casts out fear. What the verse says in 1 John 4, next to God is love and we love because he first loved us.

Isaiah 26:3 says, "You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you." Read the verse (NIV, KJV), its context, and a plain reading.

1 John 4:18 says there is no fear in love. Fear has to do with punishment — dread of judgment — and God's love removes that fear.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 says, "Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." Read the verse (NIV, KJV), its context, and a plain reading.

2 Corinthians 12:9 says, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Read the verse (NIV, KJV), its context, and a plain reading.