When Jesus is your first love, you are an overcomer and will enjoy the fruit of the tree of life in Paradise.

When Jesus is your first love, you are an overcomer and will enjoy the fruit of the tree of life in Paradise.

“To him who overcomes [nikao] I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God” (Rev 2:7)

“I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome [nikao] the wicked one.” (1Jn 2:14)

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation [thlipsis]; but be of good cheer, I have overcome [nikao] the world.” (Jn 16:33)

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome [nikao] them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” (1Jn 4:4)

“For whatever is born of God overcomes [nikao] the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” (1Jn 5:4)

“Who is he who overcomes [nikao] the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1Jn 5:5)

“I write to you, young men, because you have overcome [nikao] the wicked one.” (1Jn 2:13)

“But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory [nikos] through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1Cor 15:57)

“Do not be overcome [nikao] by evil, but overcome [nikao] evil with good.” (Rom 12:21)

“by the circumcision of Christ…having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing [thriambeuo] over them in it.” (Col 2:11,15)

“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph [thriambeuo] in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.” (1Cor 2:14)

“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors [hupernikao] through Him who loved us.” (Rom 8:37)

Reading: Ps 78-80; Rev 2