⁴ who gave Himself for our sins^(A) to rescue us from this present evil age,^(B) according to the will of our God and Father.^(C)

¹⁵ He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; He triumphed over them by Him.^[a](A)

³ For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,^{(A) 4} because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. ⁵ And who is the one who conquers the world^(B) but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?^(C)

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.

⁵ Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop crying. Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah,^(A) the Root of David,^(B) has been victorious^(C) so that He may open the scroll and^[a] its seven seals.”