1 John 4:5 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁵ They are of the world: on account of this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ They proceed from the world and are of the world; therefore it is out of the world [its whole economy morally considered] that they speak, and the world listens (pays attention) to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ They are of the world: therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.

Common English Bible

⁵ They are from the world. So they speak from the world’s point of view and the world listens to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ They are of the world. Therefore, they speak about the world, and the world listens to them.

1 John 4:5 Cross References

Luke 16:8

So the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of light.

John 17:14

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

John 17:16

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

John 3:31

He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

John 8:23

And He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.

2 Timothy 4:3

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, they will heap up for themselves teachers, tickling their ears,

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.