1 John 5:4 (KJV)
“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
1 John 5:4 is verse of the day number 164 of 366 on Lampfold, under the theme “Faith overcomes the world”. It comes from 1 John 5, and 10 other passages connected to it are listed below.
1 John 5:4 in other translations
because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
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 (ASV)
1 John 5:4 in context
1 John 5:1–7 (KJV). The verse of the day is highlighted.
1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten 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: and his commandments are not grievous.
4For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6This 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.
7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Cross-references for 1 John 5:4
Passages most often linked to 1 John 5:4, strongest connections first.
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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.
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.
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.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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.
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.
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
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