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2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and akeep His commandments.  
3 aFor this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And bHis commandments are not burdensome.  
4 For awhatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that bhas overcome the world—our faith.  
5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but ahe who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?  

The Certainty of God’s Witness

6 This is He who came aby water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. bAnd it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.  
7 For there are three that bear witness1 in heaven: the Father, athe Word, and the Holy Spirit; band these three are one.  
8 And there are three that bear witness on earth: athe Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.  
9 If we receive athe witness of men, the witness of God is greater; bfor this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son.  
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1 John 5:4

For (oti). The reason why God's commandments are not heavy is the power that comes with the new birth from God.

Whatsoever is begotten of God (pan to gegennhmenon ek tou qeou). Neuter singular perfect passive participle of gennaw rather than the masculine singular (verse I John 5:1) to express sharply the universality of the principle (Rothe) as in John 3:6, John 3:8; John 6:37, John 6:39.

Overcometh the world (nikai ton kosmon). Present active indicative of nikaw, a continuous victory because a continuous struggle, "keeps on conquering the world" ("the sum of all the forces antagonistic to the spiritual life," D. Smith).

This is the victory (auth estin h nikh). For this form of expression see I John 1:5; John 1:19. Nikh (victory, cf. nikaw), old word, here alone in N.T., but the later form nikov in Matthew 12:20; I Corinthians 15:54 f., I Corinthians 15:57.

That overcometh (h nikhsasa). First aorist active articular participle of nikaw. The English cannot reproduce the play on the word here. The aorist tense singles out an individual experience when one believed or when one met temptation with victory. Jesus won the victory over the world (John 16:33) and God in us (I John 4:4) gives us the victory.

Even our faith (h pistiv hmwn). The only instance of pistiv in the Johannine Epistles (not in John's Gospel, though in the Apocalypse). It is our faith in Jesus Christ as shown by our confession (verse I John 5:1) and by our life (verse I John 5:2).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 John 5:4:

John 1:7
John 6:37
John 16:33
1 John 1:1
1 John 2:16
1 John 5:1
1 John 5:5
1 John 5:13
Revelation 2:7
Revelation 3:21

 

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