1 John 5:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Whatsoever

1 John 5:1

1 John 3:9

Overcometh

General references

Matthew 22:37

Bible References

Whatsoever

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child.

No one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, because the God-given life-principle continues to live in him, and so he cannot practice sinning, because he is born of God.

Overcometh

Now who is it that continues to conquer the world, if it is not the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

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.

I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can suffering or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

But thank God! He gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Let everyone who has ears listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give to him who conquers the privilege of eating the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the paradise of God."'"

Whoever conquers will be clothed this way -- in white clothes -- and I will never blot his name out of the book of life, but I will own him as mine in the presence of my Father and His angels.

But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the message to which they bore testimony, because they did not cling to life but courted death.

Then I saw something that looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and standing upon the sea of glass were those who had conquered the wild beast, his statue, and the number representing his name; and they had harps that God had given them.

General references

And He answered him, "'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'