God's Everlasting Love

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? ^(A)If God is for us, who can be^[a] against us?

¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but ^(A)perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not ^(B)been perfected in love.

⁶ So we can confidently say,

³⁰ But ^(A)Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” ^31 (B)Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” ³² So ^(C)they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^(D)all the people that we saw in it are of great height. ³³ And there we saw the ^(E)Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the ^(F)Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves ^(G)like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”