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1 John 4:181John.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.

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

La crainte n'est pas dans l'amour, mais l'amour parfait bannit la crainte; car la crainte suppose un châtiment, et celui qui craint n'est pas parfait dans l'amour.

KJV

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.

Patristic reading

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  • Eusebius of Caesarea

    Historia Ecclesiastica

    ς οὐ λόγοις μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔργοις τῶν δορυφόρων κατ’ αὐτῶν φιλοτιμουμένων, οὐκ ἐνεδίδουν τὴν γνώμην 1 John 4,18 διὰ τὸ τὴν τελείαν ἀγάπην ἔξω βάλλειν τὸν φόβον· ὧν καταλέγειν τὴν ἀρετὴν καὶ τὴν ἐφ’ ἑκάστῃ βασάνῳ ἀνδρείαν τίς ἄν ἀρκέσειεν λόγος; ἀνέσεως γὰρ οὔσης ἅπασι τοῖς βουλο…
  • Epiphanius

    Panarion (Adversus Haereses)

    ἔθην, οἱ λεγόμενοι ἀκροβυστία ὕπὸ τῆς λεγομένης περιτομῆς ἐν σαρκὶ 1 Röm. 10,4 – 11 Röm. 13, 8b – 6 I Joh. 4, 8 – 28 Eph. 2, 11 – 14 V M 1f vgl. S. 118, 17f 11f vgl. S. 118, 19 28 – S. 179, 6 vgl. S. 119, 4–10 4 τελειουμίνη Μ 8 ἀποβα|||λόμενος, λ ausradiert V corr 23 [δὲ] * 24 ἐ|…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    ough this same act ceases in the man who has perfect charity, which "casteth out fear," according to 1 Jn. 4:18. Reply to Objection 3: Initial fear is a mean between servile and filial fear, not as between two things of the same genus, but as the imperfect is a mean between a per…

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