OVERCOME, OVERCOMER

Greek:

nikao to gain the victory, get the victory, to subdue, conquer, prevail,

              conquest

hettao to make worse, vanquish, to rate lower, to be or become

              inferior overcome; hetton worse, less; kakos worthless

              depraved, injurious, bad, evil, harm, ill, wicked; poneros

              hurtful, evil, calamitous, diseased, derelict, vicious,

              mischief, malice, guilt, bad, evil, harm lewd, malicious,

              wicked, demonic

katakurieuo to lord against, control, subjugate, exercise dominion

over, be lord over, overcome; kata opposition, intensity;

kurieuo to rule, have dominion over, lord, be lord of, exercise lordship over

1.   John 16:33 “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 (nikao) the world.”

2.   Acts 19:15-16 (Larger Passage: 19:11-20) “And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?  And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame (katakurieuo) them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded.”

3.   Romans 3:3-4 “For what if some did not believe?  Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?  God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightiest be justified in thy sayings, and mightiest overcome (nikao) when thou art judged.”

4.   Romans 12:21 “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome (nikao) evil with good.”

5.   II Peter 2:19-20 (Larger Passage: 2:1-22) “While they promise them liberty they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, (hettao) of the same is he brought in bondage.  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome (hettao), the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.”

6.   I John 2:13 “I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome (nikao) the wicked one.”

7.   I John 2:14 “I have written unto you young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome (nikao) the wicked one.”

8.    I John 4:4 “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome (nikao) them: because greater is he that is in you, that he that is in the world.”

9.   I John 5:4 “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh (nakao) the world: and this is the victory that overcometh (nikao) the world, even our faith.”

10. I John 5:5 “Who is he that overcometh (nikao) the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”

11. Revelation 2:7 “To him that overcometh (nikao) will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”

12. Revelation 2:11 “He that overcometh (nikao) shall not be hurt of the second death.”

13. Revelation 2:17 “To him that overcometh (nakao) will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”

14. Revelation 2:26-28 “And he that overcometh (nikao), and keepeth my works unto the end to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.  And I will give him the morning star.”

15. Revelation 3:5 “He that overcometh (nikao), 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.”

16. Revelation 3:12 “Him that overcometh (nikao) will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him a new name.”

17. Revelation 3:21 “To him that overcometh (nikao) 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.”

18. Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame (nikao) him(Satan)by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto death.”

19. Revelation 17: 14 “These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome (nikao) them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”

20. Revelation 21:7 “He that overcometh (nikao) shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”