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1 John 5:4 KJV
1 John · chapter 5 · verse 4
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 · King James Version
1 John 5:4 in context
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.
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Cross references
- 1 Corinthians 15:57
- 1 John 4:4
- John 16:33
- 1 John 3:9
- 1 John 5:5
- Romans 8:35-37
- Revelation 3:21
- Revelation 12:11
Key words (Strong's)
- whatsoeverpasindividually, each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything…G3956 →
- overcomethnikaōto conquer, to carry off the victory, come off victorious, of Christ, victorious over all…G3528 →
- worldkosmosan apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government, ornament…G2889 →
- faithpistisconviction of the truth of anything, belief in the NT of a conviction or belief…G4102 →
- borngennaōof men who fathered children, to be born, to be begotten, of women giving birth to…G1080 →
- Godtheosa god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities, the Godhead, trinity, God the…G2316 →
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I. The apostle having, in the conclusion of the last chapter, as was there observed, urged Christian love upon those two accounts, as suitable to Christian profession and as suitable to the divine command, here adds a third: Such love is suitable, and indeed demanded, by their eminent relation;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5