1 John 4:18 (WEB)
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.
Fathers and councils · 33
Augustine of Hippo
“For we are not reconciled unto Him except through that love in virtue of which we are also called sons: as we are no more “under fear, like servants,” because “love, when it is made perfect, casteth out fear;” and [as] “we have received the spirit of liberty, wherein we cry, Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18
Read the whole comment“But when any one shall have arrived there, in him comes to pass that which is written, “perfect love casteth out fear.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“…the more ardently she loves her Spouse, the more carefully does she take heed of offending Him, and therefore, “perfect love casteth” not “out” this “fear,” but it endureth for ever.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“For “love perfected casteth out fear:” which fear “hath torment,” because of the straits of the soul.…” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment““But the end of the law is Christ for righteousness to every one believing;” at whose bestowing “love is shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, which hath been given to us:” and love made perfect doth cast out fear, inasmuch as now without the Law the righteousness of God hath been made manifest.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“…fear of Him; not that fear of which the Apostle saith, “Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;” for “perfect love casteth out” this “fear,” but that fear which the Prophet calleth “the spirit of the fear of the Lord;” that fear which “is pure, and endureth for ever;” that fear which feareth to…” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“Ye have heard just now the Apostle John, “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment““There is no fear in charity.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment““Fear,” indeed, “there is not in charity, but perfect charity,” as it is written, “casteth out fear:” but fear of men, not of God: fear of temporal evils, not of the Divine Judgment at the last.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“For man has not whence to love God, unless from God; and therefore he says a little after, “Let us love Him, because He first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 7–19
Read the whole comment“He that feareth is not made perfect in love,”—that fear is not of the same kind as the Apostle Paul felt lest the Corinthians should be seduced by the subtlety of the serpent; for love is susceptible of this fear, yea, love alone is capable of it.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“They fear God, indeed, but it is with that servile fear “which is not in love; for perfect love casteth out fear.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“It is also written, “There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear;” and in another place it is written, “The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“There is a fear, which perfect love casteth out; and there is another fear, which is clean, and endureth for ever.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“…servants,” He is to be understood as speaking of that servant who abideth not in the house for ever, but is characterized by the fear which love casteth out; whereas, when it is here said, “The servant is not greater than his lord: if they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you,” that servant is meant who…” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“But there is no such fear in love, for perfect love casteth out fear.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“But in my opinion, because there was to be shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Spirit that love which casteth out the fear, that might have hindered them from venturing to reprove the world which bristled with persecutions, therefore it was that He said, “He shall reprove the…” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
“For scarcely is righteousness preserved without fear, I mean not that fear which dreads the loss of worldly goods, (which perfect love casteth out,) (1 John 4:18) but that holy fear of the Lord which abideth for ever, (Ps. 19:9.) by which the righteous man, the more ardent his love to God, is so much the more…” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And the Angel says to them again, Fear not ye; I say not to the soldiers, fear not, but to you; as for them, let them be afraid, that, taught by experience, they may bear witness and say, Truly this was the Son of God; but you ought not to be afraid, for perfect love casteth out fear.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“And although the guards vied with each other in threatening them in all sorts of ways, not in words only, but in actions, they did not give up their resolution; because ‘perfect love casteth out fear.’” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XI.7Conference XI
“We therefore love because God first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18, 19.
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“But he that feareth is not yet perfect in love.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
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“For it was clearly of that other penal fear that the Apostle John said that “He who feareth is not made perfect in love, for fear hath punishment.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment “And when this has once been genuinely secured, then at once it leads you on by a still higher step to love which knows no fear; and through this you begin, without any effort and as it were naturally, to keep up everything that you formerly observed not without fear of punishment; no…” — editor's note: Cf. 1 John iv. 18.
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Tertullian
““He that feareth is not perfect in love”—to wit, the love of God.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“John, in fact, exhorts us to lay down our lives even for our brethren, affirming that there is no fear in love: “For perfect love casteth out fear, since fear has punishment; and he who fears is not perfect in love.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
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Jerome
“Accordingly, while for the young the holy scripture makes fear the beginning of knowledge, it also tells us that “perfect love casteth out fear.”” — editor's note: 1 Joh. iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“‘Perfect love’ of God ‘casteth out fear.’” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
Read the whole comment“For “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” and this fear is in its turn cast out by love.” — editor's note: 1 Joh. iv. 18.
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Gregory the Great
“For it is written, Perfect charity casteth out fear (1 Joh. iv. 18).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“Chap. iv. 18.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And if “God be love,” piety also is love: “there is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16, 18.
Read the whole comment““Perfect love casteth out fear.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 18.
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Cross-references · 38
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 2:22–25 (3) (Catena Aurea) and 2 other places.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in The Institutes IV.39.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 88.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.13.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.13.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 85 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 2:22–25 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 2:22–25 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 2:22–25 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.7.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.7.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.7.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 85 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 88 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 88.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 85 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.13.