Parallel Verses
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 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.
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.
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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Hastings
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 but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world. 4 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. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world's perspective 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 driven out.
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
1 John 4:16
And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!
1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.
1 John 2:13
I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.
1 John 4:6
We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.
Revelation 12:11
But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.
John 10:28-30
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.
John 14:17-23
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.
John 14:30
I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,
John 16:11
and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.
John 17:23
I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
Romans 8:10-11
But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 6:13
"Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
2 Corinthians 4:4
among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
Ephesians 2:2
in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
Ephesians 3:17
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been 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 rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
1 John 3:9-10
Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God's seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.
1 John 3:24
And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.
1 John 4:13
By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.
1 John 5:4
because This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.