1 John 5:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world. Testimony About the SonThis is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:57 : 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
  • 1 John 4:4 : 4 You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage– I have conquered the world.”
  • Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,“For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!
  • Rev 12:11 : 11 But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.
  • Rev 3:12 : 12 The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God(the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name as well.
  • Rev 3:21 : 21 I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
  • Rev 15:2 : 2 Then I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had conquered the beast and his image and the number of his name. They were standing by the sea of glass, holding harps given to them by God.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.
  • 1 John 5:5 : 5 Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
  • Rev 2:7 : 7 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.’
  • Rev 2:11 : 11 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.’
  • Rev 2:17 : 17 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.’
  • Rev 2:26 : 26 And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations–
  • Rev 3:5 : 5 The one who conquers will be dressed like them in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the book of life, but will declare his name before my Father and before his angels.
  • 1 John 2:13-17 : 13 I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one. 14 I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one. 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.

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    5Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

    6Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood– not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

  • 1 John 4:4-7
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    4You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

    5They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

    6We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

    7God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

    2By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

  • 1 Cor 15:57
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    57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

  • Rom 8:37
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    37No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

  • 1 John 5:18-20
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    18We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

    19We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

    20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

  • 1 Pet 5:9
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    9Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering.

  • 1 John 3:9-10
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    9Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

  • 1 John 5:10-14
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    10(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

    11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

    12The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.

    13Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

    14And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    16And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

    17By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

  • Rev 21:7
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    7The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

  • 1 Pet 1:23
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    23You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

  • 1 John 2:15-17
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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

    16because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

    17And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.

  • John 16:33
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    33I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage– I have conquered the world.”

  • John 3:15-16
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    15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

    16For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

  • 2 Cor 5:7
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    7for we live by faith, not by sight.

  • Rev 2:26
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    26And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations–

  • Rev 12:11
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    11But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

  • Rom 5:1-2
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    1The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

    2through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

  • Rev 3:5
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    5The one who conquers will be dressed like them in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the book of life, but will declare his name before my Father and before his angels.

  • Rev 3:21
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    21I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

  • 1 John 4:9
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    9By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

  • Rev 17:14
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    14They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those accompanying the Lamb are the called, chosen, and faithful.”

  • 1 Pet 1:4-5
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    4that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,

    5who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

  • John 5:24
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    24“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • John 1:13
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    13– children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.

  • Rom 10:17
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    17Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.