Cross references

1 John 5:4

because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

1 John 5:4 BSB

1 John 5:4 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 17 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Corinthians 15:57 (70 votes) and 1 John 4:4 (52 votes). 33 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 6 to Revelation 21.

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Which verses does 1 John 5:4 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

  2. 1 John 4:452 votes

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

  3. John 16:3344 votes

    I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

  4. 1 John 3:938 votes

    Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

  5. 1 John 5:538 votes

    Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

  6. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” …

  7. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

  8. They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.

  9. Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.

  10. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.

  11. 1 John 5:111 votes

    Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

Which verses point to 1 John 5:4?

The 10 strongest of 33.