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1 John 4:4

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.

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The 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.

In Context

3while all inspiration that does not acknowledge Jesus is not inspiration from God. It is the inspiration of the Anti-Christ; you have heard that it was to come, and it is now already in the world.

5Those men belong to the world; and therefore they speak as the world speaks, and the world listens to them.

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Cross References

John 10:28and I give them Immortal Life, and they shall not be lost; nor shall any one snatch them out of my hands.

John 14:17The world cannot receive this Spirit, because it does not see him or recognise him, but you recognise him, because he is always with you, and is within you.

John 16:11as to Judgment, for the Spirit that is ruling this world has been condemned.

Romans 8:10but, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is Life as a consequence of righteousness.

Romans 8:37Yet amidst all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us!

1 Corinthians 6:13Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:2-4

Concerning Antichrist. ( a. d. 80.) 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. The apostle,… Read the whole commentary →

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