Verse 17. Herein is our love made perfect.

By the operation of God's love in our hearts we are enabled to love our brethren and our neighbor, exhibiting the fruits of our love all around us, and so perfecting our love that when the great day of judgment shall come, we shall stand before him in all confidence.

Boldness.

Want of fear; having observed his will by obeying his command to love, we shall have no fears in his presence, because as he is, so we are; for so we conducted ourselves while in the world.

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Old Testament