If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as strangers here in reverent fear:
Pass the time of your sojourning in fear ...  Another strand of the epistle's thought surfaces again here, as in  1 Peter 1:1.  Some have alleged a contradiction between this and John's words, "Perfect love casteth out fear" (1 John 4:18); but, as Caffin pointed out: