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 grievous.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
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- 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, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Read in context1 John 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.
Read in contextJohn 16:33
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.
Read in context1 John 3:9
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.
Read in context1 John 5:5
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Read in contextRomans 8:35–37
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Read in contextRevelation 3:21
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.
Read in contextRevelation 12:11
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.
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