1 John 4:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 John 4:5 Cross References

Psalm 17:4

As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.

Jeremiah 29:8

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that be in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you, neither hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Micah 2:11

If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

Luke 16:8

And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

John 17:14

I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

John 17:16

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

John 3:31

He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is of the earth, and of the earth he speaketh: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

John 8:23

And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;

Revelation 12:9

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