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18 There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love [a]turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear [b]brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love’s complete perfection].

19 We love Him, because He first loved us.

20 If anyone says, I love God, and hates (detests, abominates) his brother [[c]in Christ], he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, Whom he has not seen.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:18 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. 1 John 4:18 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. 1 John 4:20 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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