1 John 5:4

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“because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.”

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BSBPD

“because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 John 5:4 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
  2. Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
  3. 1 Corinthians 15:57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
  4. 1 John 2:13I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
  5. 1 John 3:9Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
  6. 1 John 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
  7. 1 John 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
  8. 1 John 5:5Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
  9. Revelation 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
  10. Revelation 2:11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
  11. Revelation 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
  12. Revelation 2:26And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
  13. Revelation 3:5Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
  14. Revelation 3:12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write 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.
  15. Revelation 3:21To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
  16. Revelation 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
  17. Revelation 15:2And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,

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