4:7-11 What Love Really Is Jesus’ sacrifice for us models what true love really looks like (3:16). Now, because we know what love is, we are enabled and called to display the same kind of sacrificial love toward one another. Such love is both the fruit and the evidence of the genuineness of our salvation.
4:17-21 The Answer to Fear Suffering, especially when it is acute or prolonged, can make us susceptible to fear. The answer to such fear is to remind ourselves of who we are in Christ: dearly loved children of God. When we are sure of who we are and to whom we belong, we can rest in “God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand” (Phil 4:7).