1 John 5:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵ And who is the person who can overcome [the evil influence of] the world? [It is] the one who [truly] believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Common English Bible

⁵ Who defeats the world? Isn’t it the one who believes that Jesus is God’s Son?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 5:5 Cross References

Mark 9:23

And Jesus said to him, “’If you can.’ [Note: By repeating the man’s words Jesus seems to be saying, “You mean, if you can believe”]. Everything is possible to the person who believes [it can happen].”

Acts 8:37

{This verse is absent from many manuscripts}.

1 John 4:15

Whoever proclaims that Jesus is the Son of God, God [continually] lives in that person’s heart, and he lives in [fellowship with] God [See 2:23].

1 John 5:1

Every person who believes that Jesus is the Christ [i.e., God’s specially chosen one] has been [spiritually] conceived [and eventually born] by God. And everyone who [continually] loves God, who did the conceiving, also [must continually] love the person whom God has [spiritually] conceived.

1 John 5:20

And [in addition], we know that the Son of God has come [in a physical body, See 4:2] and has given us understanding, so that we can know the True One [i.e., God], and that we are in [fellowship with] the True One, even His Son Jesus Christ. This Son is the true God and eternal life.