100 Bible Verses about Overcoming

Romans 12:21 ESV / 105 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

John 16:33 ESV / 92 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 John 5:5 ESV / 49 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 4:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

1 John 5:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Romans 8:37 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

James 1:19-20 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Revelation 3:21 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 1:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Psalm 103:1-5 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Revelation 12:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Revelation 3:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Isaiah 41:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

James 1:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Psalm 3:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Zechariah 9:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Psalm 118:25-26 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 4:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 1:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

James 1:2-4 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Psalm 6:1-10 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled. My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long? Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? ...

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Luke 1:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,

James 1:19-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Corinthians 15:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

John 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Psalm 56:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Revelation 3:1-5:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ...

Revelation 2:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Timothy 6:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.

John 16:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Revelation 3:1-21:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ...

1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

2 Timothy 2:23-24 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,

John 5:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 4:1-54 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...

John 1:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He was in the beginning with God.

Zechariah 9:1-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. For the Lord has an eye on mankind and on all the tribes of Israel, and on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets. But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and strike down her power on the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire. Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited; ...

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...

Psalm 3:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

James 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

Romans 8:17-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Psalm 118:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 55:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.

Revelation 21:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Revelation 2:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

1 John 5:4-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 5:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

James 4:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Luke 22:40 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 4:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...

Proverbs 22:1-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. ...

Proverbs 17:1-28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers. The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts. An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished. ...

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Psalm 51:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

Psalm 34:17-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Psalm 34:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.