1 John 5:4
For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
3For love to God means obeying his commandments; and his commandments are not irksome.
Cross References
John 16:33"I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."
1 Corinthians 15:57But thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 3:9Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning, because his seed is abiding in him; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God.
1 John 5:1Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Father’s Child.
Revelation 2:7He who has an ear, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes, to him will I give to eat from the tree of life which is in the garden of God.
Revelation 2:17He who has ears, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no man knows, but he that receives it.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 5:2-6
Love and Faith. ( a. d. 80.) 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that… Read the whole commentary →