1 John 5:4
1 John · New Testament · Chapter 5
“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”1 John 5:4
What Does 1 John 5:4 Mean?
1 John 5:4 is found in the book of 1 John, chapter 5, verse 4 of the New Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Key themes in this passage include Faith, and Spiritual Warfare.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to 1 John 5:4 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
John 16:33“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”1 John 4:4“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.”1 Corinthians 15:57“But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”1 John 2:15“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”Romans 8:37“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”1 Peter 1:3“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”1 John 3:9“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”1 John 5:5“Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”Ephesians 6:16“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”Romans 8:35“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”Revelation 3:21“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”1 John 5:18“We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.”John 1:13“Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”Revelation 12:11“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”Revelation 3:5“He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.”Revelation 2:7“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”Revelation 2:11“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.”Ephesians 2:2“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:”Jude 1:20“But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,”James 1:27“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
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