There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.
The First Letter of John
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Topic: Love, Compassion, & Kindness
“Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.
No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.”
Christianity
The First Letter of John
Wilson, Andrew, editor. World Scripture - a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Paragon House, 1991, pp. 159-160 [Bible, 1 John 4.7-8, 12-13, 18-21].
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1 John 4.7-8, 12-13, 18-21
The ideal of love described in this section [True Love] is rare in the world. Such love requires the foundation of integrity, truthfulness, and unity with the Absolute… Several well-known passages describe human love as grounded in divine love: 1 John 4 and 1 Corinthians 13 of the Christian Bible, from the Bhagavad Gita, and the Buddhist Metta Sutta.
— World Scripture – a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Paragon House, 1991, p. 159.
True Love
When the individual realizes Truth and fulfills God’s purpose for his life, he comes to embody universal love. He delights in the well-being of others and selflessly works for their benefit. Love or Compassion, being the core of Ultimate Reality, is expressed in the love of the saint who can rise above self-centered attachments and desires. It is true love, love that is totally committed to the welfare of the other. It is love that is universal, overcoming the ordinary tendency to self-centeredness or favoritism for one’s own.
— World Scripture – a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Paragon House, 1991, p. 159.
Additional Bible Quotes About Overcoming Fear
“For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
— 2 Timothy 1:7.
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
— Joshua 1:9.
“Peace is what I leave with you; it is my own peace that I give you. I do not give it as the world does. Do not be worried and upset; do not be afraid.”
— John 14:27.
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
— Matthew 6:34.
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
— Psalm 23:4.
“For [the LORD] will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence… You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday… Because you have made the LORD your refuge, the Most High your habitation, no evil shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent. For he will give his angels charge of you to guide you in all your ways.”
— World Scripture – a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Paragon House, 1991 [Psalm 91.1-13 (excerpts)], pp. 398-399.