18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
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For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, …
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-21)The apostle, having thus excited and enforced sacred love from the great pattern and motive of it, the love that is and dwells in God himself, proceeds to recommend it further by other considerations; and he recommends it in both the branches of it, both as love to God, and love to our brother or Christian neighbour. I. As love to God, to the primum amabile—the first and chief of all amiable being…
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