1 John 5:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh 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

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 15:57 : 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 John 4:4 : 4 Ye are of God, 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 I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall 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 distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are 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 by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
• 1 John 3:9 : 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
• Rev 3:12 : 12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
• Rev 3:21 : 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set 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 had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
• 1 John 5:1 : 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
• 1 John 5:5 : 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but 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 unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
• Rev 2:11 : 11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 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 unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
• Rev 2:26 : 26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
• Rev 3:5 : 5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but 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 have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. 14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that 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 wicked 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 pride 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.