11 translations · Greek
1 John 5:4
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
1 John 5:4 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
- KJV King James Version
- For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- because everyone who is begotten of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcame the world—our faith.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Everyone who is born of God defeats the world. The way we gain victory and defeat the world is by trusting God.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world — our faith;
- DBY Darby Translation
- 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.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- For whatever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- For whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὅτι | hoti | because | G3754 ὅτι that/since: that |
| πᾶν | pan | everyone | G3956 πᾶς all |
| τὸ | to | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| γεγεννημένον | gegennēmenon | born | G1080 γεννάω to beget |
| ἐκ | ek | of | G1537 ἐκ out from |
| τοῦ | tou | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεοῦ | Theou | God | G2316 θεός God |
| νικᾷ | nika | overcomes | G3528 νικάω to conquer |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| κόσμον | kosmon | world | G2889 κόσμος world |
| καὶ | kai | And | G2532 καί and |
| αὕτη | hautē | this | G3778 οὗτος this/he/she/it |
| ἐστὶν | estin | is | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| ἡ | hē | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| νίκη | nikē | victory | G3529 νίκη victory |
| ἡ | hē | that | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| νικήσασα | nikēsasa | has overcome | G3528 νικάω to conquer |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| κόσμον | kosmon | world | G2889 κόσμος world |
| ἡ | hē | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| πίστις | pistis | faith | G4102 πίστις faith |
| ἡμῶν | hēmōn | our | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
Related verses
- 1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 John 4:4
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
- John 16:33
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
- 1 John 3:9
Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
- 1 John 5:5
Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
- Romans 8:35–37
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Revelation 3:21
He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
- Revelation 12:11
They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
- Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
- Revelation 2:11
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
3 For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
Read all of 1 John 5 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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