OET interlinear 1YHN (1JHN) 5:4

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: translate-versebridge

ὅτι πᾶν τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ, νικᾷ τὸν κόσμον

because everything ¬which /having_been/_born of ¬the God /is/_overcoming the world

Verses 3 and 4 might be clearer in your language if you reorder and combine them as a verse bridge. To do so, you could begin this sentence with “Since” instead of For; you could end it with a comma instead of a period; and you could make it the beginning of the second sentence in the previous verse. It would go before “his commandments are not burdensome.” The word “And” would be left out. The result would be: “For this is the love of God, that we should keep his commandments. Since everyone who has been begotten from God overcomes the world, his commandments are not burdensome. And this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith.”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

πᾶν τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ

everything ¬which /having_been/_born of ¬the God

See how you translated the similar expression in 2:29. Alternate translation: “everyone whose father is God”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

πᾶν τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ

everything ¬which /having_been/_born of ¬the God

See whether in 2:29 you decided to explain this metaphor. Alternate translation: “everyone whose spiritual father is God”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

νικᾷ τὸν κόσμον

/is/_overcoming the world

As in 2:13, John is using the word translated as triumphs over. Here John is speaking of the believers’ refusal to live by the value system of ungodly people as if the believers had defeated that system in a struggle. Alternate translation: “does not live by the value system of ungodly people”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

τὸν κόσμον

the world

See how you translated the term world in 2:15. It has a similar meaning in this verse. Alternate translation: “the value system of ungodly people”

Note 6 topic: writing-poetry

ἡ νίκη ἡ νικήσασα

the victory ¬which /having/_overcame

Here, the triumph that has triumphed over is an emphatic construction that uses a noun and verb that come from the same root. You may be able to use a similar construction in your language to express the meaning here. Alternatively, your language may have another way of showing the emphasis.

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

ἡ νίκη ἡ νικήσασα

the victory ¬which /having/_overcame

If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the idea behind the abstract noun triumph by combining it with the verb triumphed over. Alternate translation: “what has enabled us to triumph over”

Note 8 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

ἡ νίκη

the victory

John is speaking of the thing that has won the triumph as if it were the triumph itself. Alternate translation: “what has won the triumph and”

Note 9 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ἡ νικήσασα τὸν κόσμον

the ¬which /having/_overcame the world

Once again John is using the word translated as triumphed over. He is speaking of the faith that he and his readers share as if it had defeated the ungodly value system in a struggle. Alternate translation: “that enables us to live differently from the value system of ungodly people”

Note 10 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

(Occurrence 2) τὸν κόσμον

the world

John is using the term world to mean the same thing as in the previous sentence. Alternate translation: “the value system of ungodly people”

Note 11 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν

the ¬which the faith ˱of˲_us

If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the idea behind the abstract noun faith with a verb such as “believe.” Alternate translation: “that we believe in Jesus”