1 John 5:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

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  • 1 Cor 15:57 : 57 But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 John 4:4 : 4 You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.
  • Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword? 36 As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction. 37 But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.
  • Rev 12:11 : 11 And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.
  • Rev 3:12 : 12 Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.
  • Rev 3:21 : 21 To him who overcomes I will give a place with me on my high seat, even as I overcame, and am seated with my Father on his high seat.
  • Rev 15:2 : 2 And I saw a sea which seemed like glass mixed with fire; and those who had overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name, were in their places by the sea of glass, with God's instruments of music in their hands.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.
  • 1 John 5:5 : 5 Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?
  • Rev 2:7 : 7 He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
  • Rev 2:11 : 11 He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not come under the power of the second death.
  • Rev 2:17 : 17 He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.
  • Rev 2:26 : 26 He who overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him I will give rule over the nations,
  • Rev 3:5 : 5 He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.
  • 1 John 2:13-17 : 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father. 14 I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One. 15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world. 17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

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  • 1 John 5:5-6
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    5 Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

    6 This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.

  • 1 John 4:4-7
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    4 You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

    5 They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.

    6 We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

    7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

    2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

    3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

  • 1 Cor 15:57
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    57 But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 8:37
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    37 But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

  • 1 John 5:18-20
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    18 We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

    19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

    20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

  • 1 Pet 5:9
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    9 Do not give way to him but be strong in your faith, in the knowledge that your brothers who are in the world undergo the same troubles.

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    9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

    10 In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

  • 1 John 5:10-14
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    10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

    11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

    12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

    13 I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

    14 And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:

  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

    17 In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

  • Rev 21:7
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    7 He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.

  • 1 Pet 1:23
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    23 Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

  • 1 John 2:15-17
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    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

    16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

    17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

  • John 16:33
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    33 I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

  • John 3:15-16
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    15 So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

    16 For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

  • 2 Cor 5:7
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    7 (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

  • Rev 2:26
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    26 He who overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him I will give rule over the nations,

  • Rev 12:11
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    11 And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

  • Rom 5:1-2
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    1 For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

    2 Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5 Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

  • Rev 3:5
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    5 He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.

  • Rev 3:21
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    21 To him who overcomes I will give a place with me on my high seat, even as I overcame, and am seated with my Father on his high seat.

  • 1 John 4:9
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    9 And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

  • Rev 17:14
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    14 These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.

  • 1 Pet 1:4-5
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    4 And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

    5 Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

  • John 5:24
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    24 Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

  • John 1:13
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    13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

  • Rom 10:17
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    17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.