You are born of God and your faith gives you the victory over the world’s influence.

You are born of God and your faith gives you the victory over the world’s influence.

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

“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 [tharseo], I have overcome [nikao] the world.” (Jn 16:33)

“And do not be conformed [suschematizo] to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” (Rom 12:2)

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

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.” (1Jn 2:15-16)

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” (Jn 15:18-19)

“Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.” (3Jn 3:13)

“Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God” (1Jn 3:9)

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God” (1Jn 4:7)

“Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.” (1Jn 5:1)

“We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.” (1Jn 5:18)

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (Jn 1:12-13)

“Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (Jn 3:3)

“Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” (Jn 3:5)

“having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever” (1Pet 1:23)

“But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.” (1Jn 2:27)

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

“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.” (2Cor 2:14)

Reading: Ps 63-65; 1Jn 5