1 John 4:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Little children, you are from God and have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

Common English Bible

⁴ You are from God, little children, and you have defeated these people because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Little sons, you are of God, and so you have overcome him. For he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 4:4 Cross References

Romans 8:31

What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

1 John 5:4

for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith.

Romans 8:37

No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.

1 John 4:16

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.

1 Corinthians 2:12

Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are God’s children and that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one.

1 John 4:13

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power;

Ephesians 3:17

and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love.

Revelation 12:11

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.

1 John 3:24

All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.

John 12:31

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.

John 17:23

I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

1 John 4:6

We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

1 John 2:13

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have conquered the evil one.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.

John 16:11

about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

John 14:30

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

1 John 2:1

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,

1 John 3:20

whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.