4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.


In Context

1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

3 and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1 John 4:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:4Ye 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:4Ye 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4Ye — of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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