Bible Verses About Overcoming the World
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for overcoming the world, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 18,379 votes, led by John 16:33. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Overcoming the World
John 16:33844 votes
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
1 John 5:4736 votes
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 John 4:4612 votes
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John 5:5526 votes
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Revelation 3:21523 votes
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
1 John 5:4-5454 votes
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Proverbs 3:5-6364 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Revelation 12:11348 votes
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
1 Corinthians 10:13343 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
James 4:7343 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Romans 8:37306 votes
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
1 John 3:9301 votes
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Galatians 2:20284 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Psalms 27:1-14258 votes
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
1 Corinthians 15:57254 votes
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 12:21245 votes
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
2 Corinthians 12:9233 votes
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Psalms 27:1225 votes
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Revelation 2:26219 votes
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
John 14:27217 votes
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
1 John 4:1-21214 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Revelation 3:5210 votes
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
1 John 2:13206 votes
I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
Proverbs 16:9202 votes
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
Romans 12:2193 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
What does the Bible say about overcoming the world?
Readers most often cite John 16:33 on the subject of overcoming the world. Across 18,379 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 John 5:4, 1 John 4:4, 1 John 5:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.