1 John 5:4
Good News Translation
because every child of God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith.

New Revised Standard Version
for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith.

Contemporary English Version
Every child of God can defeat the world, and our faith is what gives us this victory.

New American Bible
for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory which overcameth the world: Our faith.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory which overcameth the world: Our faith.

whatsoever.

1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

overcometh.

1 John 5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 2:13-17 I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. . . .

1 John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I have overcome the world.

Romans 8:35-37 Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? . . .

1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Revelation 2:7,11,17,26 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of my God. . . .

Revelation 3:5,12,21 He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments: and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. And I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. . . .

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of the testimony: and they loved not their lives unto death.

Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having the harps of God:

Context
Overcoming the World
3For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy. 4For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory which overcameth the world: Our faith. 5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?…
Cross References
John 1:13
Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 John 2:13
I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one.

1 John 2:29
If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth justice is born of him.

1 John 3:9
Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 4:4
You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

1 John 5:1
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

1 John 5:18
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not.

1 John 5:3
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