Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear, revere and worship You, goodness which You have wrought for those who trust and take refuge in You before the sons of men!
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
He is never to take wine or other fermented rdrink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth. Many of the people of Israel will he bring back to the Lord their God. And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous-m to make ready a people for the Lord.
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and sound mind.
God’s love is perfect and casts out fear.
PERFECT LOVE Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And