Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Prayers for 1 John 4:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
How To Recognize The Spirit Of God
3 and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it was coming, and now it is in the world already. 4 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. 5 They are of the world and therefore speak as of the world, and the world listens to them.
Phrases
Cross References
John 12:31
Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
1 John 4:16
So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand the things freely given to us by God.
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
1 John 2:13
I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.
1 John 4:6
We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Revelation 12:11
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even to the death.
John 10:28-30
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
John 14:17-23
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; but you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:30
I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in me.
John 16:11
of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
John 17:23
I in them, and you in me; that they may become perfectly one, and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Romans 8:10-11
But if Christ is in you, although your body is dead because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 6:13
"Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food"but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
2 Corinthians 4:4
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ephesians 2:2
in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 3:17
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Ephesians 6:12-13
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
1 John 3:9-10
No one who is of God practices sin, for God's seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
1 John 3:24
Now those who keep his commandments abide in him, and he in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom 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
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the worldour faith.