New American Standard Bible 2020

1 John 4:17-21

17By this, 1love is perfected with us, so that we may have 2confidence in 3the day of judgment; because 4as He is, we also are in this world.

18There is no fear in love, but 5perfect love drives out fear, because fear 6involves punishment, and the one who fears is not 7perfected in love.

19 8We love, because He first loved us.

20 9If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he 10hates his brother or sister, he is a 11liar; for 12the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, 13cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

21And 14this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God 15must also love his brother and sister.

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Notes

1. 1 John 4:17 1 John 2:5; 4:12 ↩
2. 1 John 4:17 1 John 2:28 ↩
3. 1 John 4:17 Matt 10:15 ↩
4. 1 John 4:17 John 17:22; 1 John 2:6; 3:1, 7, 16 ↩
5. 1 John 4:18 Rom 8:15 ↩
6. 1 John 4:18 Lit has ↩
7. 1 John 4:18 1 John 4:12 ↩
8. 1 John 4:19 1 John 4:10 ↩
9. 1 John 4:20 1 John 1:6, 8, 10; 2:4 ↩
10. 1 John 4:20 1 John 2:9, 11 ↩
11. 1 John 4:20 1 John 1:6 ↩
12. 1 John 4:20 1 John 3:17 ↩
13. 1 John 4:20 1 Pet 1:8; 1 John 4:12 ↩
14. 1 John 4:21 Lev 19:18; Matt 5:43f; 22:37ff; John 13:34 ↩
15. 1 John 4:21 1 John 3:11 ↩

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