1 John 5:4

World English Bible (2000)

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your 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 of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."
  • Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter." 37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
  • Rev 12:11 : 11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.
  • Rev 3:12 : 12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
  • Rev 3:21 : 21 He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
  • Rev 15:2 : 2 I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
  • 1 John 5:5 : 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
  • Rev 2:7 : 7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
  • Rev 2:11 : 11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won't be harmed by the second death.
  • Rev 2:17 : 17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
  • Rev 2:26 : 26 He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
  • Rev 3:5 : 5 He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way 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 to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father. 14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. 17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

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    5Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

    6This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

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

    5They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

    6We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

    7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

    2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

  • 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 are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

  • 1 John 5:18-20
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    18We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

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

    20We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

  • 1 Pet 5:9
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    9Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

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    9Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

    10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

  • 1 John 5:10-14
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    10He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

    11The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

    12He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.

    13These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

    14This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

  • 1 John 4:16-17
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    16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

    17In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

  • Rev 21:7
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    7He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

  • 1 Pet 1:23
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    23having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

  • 1 John 2:15-17
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    15Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

    16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

    17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

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    33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

  • John 3:15-16
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    15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

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

  • Rev 12:11
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    11They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.

  • Rom 5:1-2
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    1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

    2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

  • Rev 3:5
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    5He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

  • Rev 3:21
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    21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

  • 1 John 4:9
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    9By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

  • Rev 17:14
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    14These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."

  • 1 Pet 1:4-5
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    4to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

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

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

  • John 5:24
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    24"Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

  • John 1:13
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    13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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