Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.

  18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus

13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves

Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.

9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light

And having disarmed the powers and authorities, [Jesus] made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?