1 John 4:4

New Century Version

My dear children, you belong to God and have defeated them; because God’s Spirit, who is in you, is greater than the devil, who is in the world.

Cross References

John 12:31

Now is the time for the world to be judged; now the ruler of this world will be thrown down.

John 14:30

I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

John 16:11

And the Helper will prove to them that judgment happened when the ruler of this world was judged.

John 17:23

I will be in them and you will be in me so that they will be completely one. Then the world will know that you sent me and that you loved them just as much as you loved me.

Romans 8:31

So what should we say about this? If God is for us, no one can defeat us.

Romans 8:37

But in all these things we are completely victorious through God who showed his love for us.

1 Corinthians 2:12

Now we did not receive the spirit of the world, but we received the Spirit that is from God so that we can know all that God has given us.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not for sexual sin but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The devil who rules this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe. They cannot see the light of the Good News—the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is exactly like God.

2 Corinthians 6:16

The temple of God cannot have any agreement with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live with them and walk with them. And I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Ephesians 2:2

Yes, in the past you lived the way the world lives, following the ruler of the evil powers that are above the earth. That same spirit is now working in those who refuse to obey God.

Ephesians 3:17

I pray that Christ will live in your hearts by faith and that your life will be strong in love and be built on love.

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his great power.

1 John 2:1

My dear children, I write this letter to you so you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have a helper in the presence of the Father—Jesus Christ, the One who does what is right.

1 John 2:13

I write to you, fathers, because you know the One who existed from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you have defeated the Evil One.

1 John 3:24

The people who obey God’s commands live in God, and God lives in them. We know that God lives in us because of the Spirit God gave us.

1 John 4:13

We know that we live in God and he lives in us, because he gave us his Spirit.

1 John 4:16

And so we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. God is love. Those who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

1 John 4:6

But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. But those who are not from God do not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit that is true and the spirit that is false.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, but the Evil One controls the whole world.

1 John 5:4

because everyone who is a child of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world—our faith.

Revelation 12:11

And our brothers and sisters defeated him by the blood of the Lamb’s death and by the message they preached. They did not love their lives so much that they were afraid of death.