1 John 5:4 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
For whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
For all that is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, [even ]our faith.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, [even] our faith.
LSV Literal Standard Version
because everyone who is begotten of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcame the world—our faith.
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
For whatever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
For all that is borne of God, ouercommeth this world: and this is that victorie that hath ouercome this world, euen our faith.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
For everyone who is born from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
For all that is borne of god over commeth the worlde. And this is the victory that overcometh the worlde even oure fayth.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world — our faith;
FBV Free Bible Version
Everyone who is born of God defeats the world. The way we gain victory and defeat the world is by trusting God.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
Porque todo lo que nace de Dios, vence al mundo: y ésta es la victoria que vence al mundo, nuestra fé.
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Porque todo aquello que es nacido de Dios vence al mundo: y esta es la victoria que vence al mundo, nuestra fe.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
porque el que es hijo de Dios puede vencer el pecado y las inclinaciones al mal, confiando en la ayuda que Cristo puede ofrecerle.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Porque todo lo nacido de Dios vence al mundo, y esta es la victoria que venció al mundo: nuestra fe.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Todo el que nace de Dios vence al mundo. La manera como obtenemos la victoria y vencemos al mundo es por la fe en Dios.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
porque todo lo que ha nacido de Dios vence al mundo. Y esta es la victoria que ha vencido al mundo: nuestra fe.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
ὅτι πᾶν τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ νικᾷ τὸν κόσμον· καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ νίκη ἡ νικήσασα τὸν κόσμον, ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν.
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
οτι παν το γεγεννημενον εκ του θεου νικα τον κοσμον· και αυτη εστιν η νικη η νικησασα τον κοσμον, η πιστις ημων.
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
Ὅτι πᾶν τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ νικᾷ τὸν κόσμον· καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ νίκη ἡ νικήσασα τὸν κόσμον, ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν.
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
οτι παν το γεγεννημενον εκ του θεου νικα τον κοσμον και αυτη εστιν η νικη η νικησασα τον κοσμον η πιστισ ημων
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
ὅτι πᾶν τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ νικᾷ τὸν κόσμον· καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ νίκη ἡ νικήσασα τὸν κόσμον, ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν.
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
ὅτι πᾶν τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ νικᾷ τὸν κόσμον. καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ νίκη ἡ νικήσασα τὸν κόσμον, ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν·
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Quoniam omne quod natum est ex Deo, vincit mundum: et hæc est victoria, quæ vincit mundum, fides nostra.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Ꙗ҆́кѡ всѧ́къ рожде́нный ѿ бг҃а побѣжда́етъ мі́ръ: и҆ сїѧ̀ є҆́сть побѣ́да, побѣди́вшаѧ мі́ръ, вѣ́ра на́ша.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Ибо всякий, рожденный от Бога, побеждает мир; и сия есть победа, победившая мир, вера наша.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Διότι παν ό,τι εγεννήθη εκ του Θεού νικά τον κόσμον· και αύτη είναι η νίκη η νικήσασα τον κόσμον, η πίστις ημών.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Јер сваки који је рођен од Бога побеђује свет; и вера је наша ова победа која победи свет.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Jer svaki koji je rođen od Boga pobeđuje svet; i vera je naša ova pobeda koja pobedi svet.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
لِأَنَّ كُلَّ مَنْ وُلِدَ مِنَ ٱللهِ يَغْلِبُ ٱلْعَالَمَ. وَهَذِهِ هِيَ ٱلْغَلَبَةُ ٱلَّتِي تَغْلِبُ ٱلْعَالَمَ: إِيمَانُنَا.
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC