Parallel Verses
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because he is greater, who is with you, than he who is with the world.
New American Standard Bible
You are from God,
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you
International Standard Version
Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
A Conservative Version
Ye are of God, little children, and ye have overcome them, because greater is he in you than he in the world.
American Standard Version
Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
Amplified
Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].
An Understandable Version
[But], you people are [followers] of God, little children [i.e., dear ones], and you have overcome them [i.e., these false teachers] because He who is in your lives [i.e., the Holy Spirit, See 3:24] is greater [i.e., more powerful] than he who is in [i.e., dominates] the world [i.e., Satan. See II Cor. 4:4].
Anderson New Testament
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you, is greater than he that is in the world.
Bible in Basic English
You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Common New Testament
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Daniel Mace New Testament
ye are of God, my dear children, and you have overcome them: because he that is in you, is superior to him that is in the world.
Darby Translation
Ye are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
Godbey New Testament
You are of God, little children, and you have conquered them; because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Goodspeed New Testament
You are children of God, dear children, and you have been victorious over these men, for he who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.
John Wesley New Testament
Ye are of God, beloved children, and have overcome them; because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Julia Smith Translation
Ye are of God, little children, and have conquered them: for greater is he in you, than he in the world.
King James 2000
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one [who is] in you is greater than the one [who is] in the world.
Modern King James verseion
You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Little children, ye are of God, and have overcome them: for greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Moffatt New Testament
My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.
Montgomery New Testament
My little children, you are of God and have conquered them; because he that is within you is greater than he that is in the world.
NET Bible
You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
New Heart English Bible
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.
Noyes New Testament
Ye are of God, my children, and have overcome them; because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Sawyer New Testament
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye, are, of God, dear children, and have overcome them; because, greater, is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Ye are of God, my dear children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.
Twentieth Century New Testament
You, my Children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such men as these, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Webster
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.
Weymouth New Testament
As for you, dear children, you are God's children, and have successfully resisted them; for greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
Williams New Testament
You are children of God, dear children, and you have conquered these men, because He who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.
World English Bible
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.
Worrell New Testament
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He Who is in you, than he that is in the world.
Worsley New Testament
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ye -- of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world.
Themes
God » Promises to the tempted » Final victory
God's Promises » To the tempted » Final victory
God's Promises » To the overcomers » Rewards bestowed upon those who overcome
Hearing » Why some do not hear the word of God
Hearing » Who does not hear the lord’s disciples
Hearing » Who hears the lord’s disciples
Man » The lord being greater than man
Overcomers » Rewards bestowed upon those who overcome
promises to Tempted » Final victory
Victory/overcoming » Who overcomes the wicked
War » Figurative » Encouraged in
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References
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:4
Images 1 John 4:4
Prayers for 1 John 4:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
How To Recognize The Spirit Of God
3 And every spirit that does not confess Jesus, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that it comes, and now is in the world already. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because he is greater, who is with you, than he who is with the world. 5 They are of the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world hearkens to them.
Phrases
Cross References
1 John 4:16
And we have known, and believed the love which God has in us. God is love; wherefore, he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies under the wicked one.
1 John 2:13
Fathers, I write to you, because you have known him from the beginning. Young men, I write to you, because you have overcome the wicked one.
1 John 4:6
We are of God: he who know God, hearkens to us; he who is not of God, hearkens not to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Revelation 12:11
And they have overcome him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives to the death.
1 John 3:9-10
Whoever has been begotten by God, does not work sin; because his seed abides in him; and he can not sin, because he has been begotten by God.
1 John 3:24
Now he who keeps His commandments, abides in him, and He in him; and by this we know that he abides in us, even by the Spirit, which he has given us.
1 John 4:13
By this, we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
1 John 5:4
because, every one that is begotten by God, overcomes the world. And this is the victory which overcomes the world, even our faith.