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1 John 5:4
Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
1 John 5:4 · Bible in Basic English
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1 John 5:4 in other translations
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
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In context
1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.
2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.
3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
5 Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.
7 And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.
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