4For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)I. The apostle having, in the conclusion of the last chapter, as was there observed, urged Christian love upon those two accounts, as suitable to Christian profession and as suitable to the divine command, here adds a third: Such love is suitable, and indeed demanded, by their eminent relation; our Christian brethren or fellow-believers are nearly related to God; they are his children: Whosoever b…
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