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Good News Translation
Who can defeat the world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

New Revised Standard Version
Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Contemporary English Version
No one can defeat the world without having faith in Jesus as the Son of God.

New American Bible
Who [indeed] is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

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1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

1 John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

Context
Overcoming the World
…4For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory which overcameth the world: Our faith. 5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? 6This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifieth that Christ is the truth.…
Cross References
Mark 9:23
And Jesus saith to him: If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

1 John 4:15
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

1 John 5:1
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.

1 John 5:4
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