1 John 4:4
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.
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Study Note
The encouragement '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' grounds confidence against false teaching in the asymmetry between the indwelling Spirit and the spirit of antichrist operating in the world (4:1-3). The perfect tense 'have overcome' (nenikekatē) presents the victory as already achieved — a completed event with present standing — rather than a future possibility still to be secured. The contrast between 'he that is in you' (the Holy Spirit) and 'he that is in the world' (the spirit of error, Satan) reflects the Johannine dualism of Spirit and world, truth and deception, God's children and the devil's children (John 8:44; 1 John 3:8-10). The verse became a paradigm for Christian confidence in apologetic and evangelistic contexts where the gospel confronts opposing truth-claims.
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Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
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You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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