⁴ Little children, you are from God and have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

God’s Love in Christ Jesus

³¹ What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?^(A)

⁴ for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith.^(A)

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.^(A)

¹⁶ So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.

¹² Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.

¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, then the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit^[a] is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus^[b] from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through^[c] his Spirit that dwells in you.^(A)

¹⁹ We know that we are God’s children and that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one.^(A)

¹² for our^[a] struggle is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present^[b] darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.^{[c](A) 13} Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on the evil day and, having prevailed against everything, to stand firm.^(B)

¹³ By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.