So you either overcome the world or the world overcomes you. Either you love the world and you become a slave to the world and you buy all that it sells you, you drink all of its Kool Aid only to have it turn on you and destroy you in the end. Or you figure out a way to live in this world so that you can prevail in it. Even you might say, overcome it.

2. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh
and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not
from the Father but is from the world.
- 1 John 2:16-17

3. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been
born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves
whoever has been born of him. By this we know that
we love the children of God, when we love God and
obey his commandments. 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.

4. 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 5:1-5

7. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is
the great and first commandment.”
- Matthew 20:38

8. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has
been born of God… everyone who has been born of
God overcomes the world.
- vv. 1a,4

9. …everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has
been born of him.
– v. 1b

11. By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God and obey his commandments. For
this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments. And his commandments are not
burdensome.
– vv. 2-3

12. 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?
– vv. 4-5

14. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one
who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
– v. 5