1 John 4:4
Good News Translation
But you belong to God, my children, and have defeated the false prophets, because the Spirit who is in you is more powerful than the spirit in those who belong to the world.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
Children, you belong to God, and you have defeated these enemies. God's Spirit is in you and is more powerful than the one who is in the world.

New American Bible
You belong to God, children, and you have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

are.

1 John 4:6,16 We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. . . .

1 John 3:9,10 Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God. . . .

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

and have.

1 John 2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one.

1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory which overcameth the world: Our faith.

Romans 8:37 But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.

Ephesians 6:10,13 Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power. . . .

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of the testimony: and they loved not their lives unto death.

greater.

1 John 4:13,16 In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit. . . .

1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us.

John 10:28-30 And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand. . . .

John 14:17-23 The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he shall abide with you and shall be in you. . . .

John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

Romans 8:10,11 And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: but the spirit liveth, because of justification. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:13 Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

than.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

*Gr:

John 12:31 Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

John 14:30 I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.

John 16:11 And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged.

1 Corinthians 2:12 Now, we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God: that we may know the things that are given us from God.

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.

Context
Testing the Spirits
3And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and he is now already in the world. 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. 5They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them.…
Cross References
John 12:31
Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

Romans 8:31
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

1 John 2:1
My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just.

1 John 2:13
I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one.

1 John 3:20
For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things.

1 John 4:6
We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

1 John 5:4
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory which overcameth the world: Our faith.

1 John 4:3
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