And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town. Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. Strong's 5401: (a) fear, terror, alarm, (b) the object or cause of fear, (c) reverence, respect. From a primary phebomai; alarm or fright. Through the featured Bible readings from Year C of the Revised Common Lectionary, this journal guides you to examine your daily response as a Christian disciple to those in need. There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love.

And what will be the result in the next verse? “By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us.” In other words, the way to have confidence before God on the day of judgment is to love each other with the perfected love of God — that is, love that doesn’t just talk but turns into deeds. (See also Matthew 5:7; 6:14; 7:1; James 2:13.) The Recurring Theme of the Book You were born to be real not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else’s life." Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense ~ Marcus Aurelius Therefore … work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Philippians 2:12c-13).The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ― Anna Quindlen Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda." This view is farther confirmed by the very nature of fear. "Fear hath torment." We avoid the person whom we fear. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Harper KL, Eddington KM, Silvia PJ. Perfectionism and Effort-Related Cardiac Activity: Do Perfectionists Try Harder? PLoS One. 2016;11(8):e0160340. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160340 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. John wants us to discover the secret of David Livingstone — that a life poured out in the labors of love for the eternal good of other people yields a sure consciousness of doing good, a deep peace of mind and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter!

Conclusion

More strongly the same view is presented in the operation of love — "perfect love casteth out fear."