Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

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 is greater than the one who is in the world.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Ye
ὑμείς 
Humeis 
ye, ye yourselves, you, not tr
Usage: 120

are
ἐστέ 
Este 
are, be, is, belong to, have been, not tr
Usage: 53

of
ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

τεκνίον 
Teknion 
Usage: 8

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

νικάω 
Nikao 
Usage: 17


Usage: 0

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

μείζων 
meizon 
Usage: 19

is he
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585


which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

is in
ἐν 
En 
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128

you
ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

he that

which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 John 4:4

Images 1 John 4:4

Prayers for 1 John 4:4

Context Readings

How To Recognize The Spirit Of God

3 and every spirit which does not confess Jesus [incarnate] does not come from God. This latter is the spirit of antichrist; you were told it was coming, and here it is already in the world. 4 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. 5 They belong to the world, therefore they speak as inspired by the world, and the world listens to them:


Cross References

John 12:31

Now is this world to be judged; now the Prince of this world will be expelled.

Romans 8:31

Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

1 John 4:16

well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

Romans 8:37

No, in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

1 Corinthians 2:12

Now we have received the Spirit ??not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may understand what God bestows upon us.

Ephesians 6:10

To conclude. Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might;

1 John 2:13

fathers, I am writing to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I am writing to you, because you have conquered the evil One. Children, I have written to you, because you know the Father:

1 John 4:6

we belong to God ??he who knows God listens to us, he who does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Revelation 12:11

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.

John 10:28-30

and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

John 14:17-23

even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you.

John 14:30

I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;

John 16:11

of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged.

Romans 8:10-11

On the other hand, if Christ is within you, though the body is a dead thing owing to Adam's sin, the spirit is living as the result of righteousness.

1 Corinthians 6:13

'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

2 Corinthians 4:4

there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

2 Corinthians 6:16

What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God ??as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

Ephesians 3:17

May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith!

Ephesians 6:12-13

For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

1 John 3:9-10

Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God.

1 John 3:24

he who obeys his commands remains within him ??and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

1 John 4:13

This is how we may be sure we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us a share in his own Spirit;

1 John 5:4

for whatever is born of God conquers the world. Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world.

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