1 John 5:4
2 By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
5 Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6 This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
- KJV
- For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
- WEB
- For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
- ASV
- For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, [even] our faith.
- DARBY
- For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith.
- BLB
- For everyone having been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory having overcome the world: our faith.
- ÅB
- For alt det som er født av Gud, seirer over verden; og dette er den seier som har seiret over verden: vår tro.
- OTB
- For enhver som er født av Gud, seirer over verden; og vår tro er seieren som har overvunnet verden.
- B1930
- For alt det som er født av Gud, seirer over verden; og dette er den seier som har seiret over verden: vår tro.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
Read in context1 John 4:4
You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
Read in contextJohn 16:33
I 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!”
Read in context1 John 3:9
Anyone 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.
Read in context1 John 5:5
Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
Read in contextRomans 8:35–37
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Read in contextRevelation 3:21
To 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.
Read in contextRevelation 12:11
They 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.
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