1 John 5:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, [even] our faith.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι πᾶν τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ νικᾷ τὸν κόσμον: καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ νίκη ἡ νικήσασα τὸν κόσμον, ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν.

Transliteration

Because all the gegennēmenon from the Theou nika the kosmon: and this estin the nikē the nikēsasa the kosmon, the pistis of us.

Grammar Details

*hoti*: conjunction - because/for/that
*pan*: nominative, neuter, singular - all/everything
*gegennēmenon*: perfect passive participle, nominative, neuter, singular - having been born/begotten
*ek*: preposition with genitive - from/out of
*Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
*nika*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - conquers/overcomes
*kosmon*: accusative, masculine, singular - world
*hautē*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular - this
*estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
*nikē*: nominative, feminine, singular - victory
*nikēsasa*: aorist active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having conquered/overcome
*pistis*: nominative, feminine, singular - faith
*hēmōn*: genitive, 1st plural - of us

Word Meanings

*gegennēmenon*: born/begotten/brought forth
*nika*: conquers/overcomes/prevails against
*kosmon*: world/universe/worldly system
*nikē*: victory/conquest/triumph
*nikēsasa*: having conquered/having overcome/having been victorious over
*pistis*: faith/belief/trust

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 15:57 : 57 but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 4:4 : 4 Ye are of God, [my] little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
John 16:33 : 33 These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rev 12:11 : 11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.
1 John 3:9 : 9 Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no {G4160} sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot {G3756} sin, because he is begotten of God.
Rev 3:12 : 12 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no {G3361} more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.
Rev 3:21 : 21 He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.
Rev 15:2 : 2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire; and them that come off victorious from the beast, and from his image, and from the number of his name, standing by the sea of glass, having harps of God.
1 John 5:1 : 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever {G3588} loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
1 John 5:5 : 5 And who is he that overcometh the world, but {G3361} he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Rev 2:7 : 7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the {G3319} Paradise of God.
Rev 2:11 : 11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Rev 2:17 : 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but {G3361} he that receiveth it.
Rev 2:26 : 26 And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations:
Rev 3:5 : 5 He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
1 John 2:13-17 : 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil one. I have written unto you, little children, because ye know the Father. 14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the evil one. 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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