overcoming the world
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33These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world.”
4For all that is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith.
4Little sons, you are of God, and so you have overcome him. For he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God!
21Whoever prevails, I will grant to him to sit with me on my throne, just as I also have overcome and have sat down with my Father on his throne.
4For all that is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God!
5Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence. 6In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.
11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of his testimony. And they loved not their own lives, even unto death.
7Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
13Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
37But in all these things we overcome, because of him who has loved us.
9All those who have been born of God do not commit sin. For the offspring of God abides in them, and he is not able to sin, because he was born of God.