I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
Of the 28 occurrences of the verb nikan ("to conquer") in the New Testament, 24 are in John’s writings, and the noun nike ("victory") appears only in 1 John 5:4 in the New Testament. Thus the victory motif is peculiarly Johannine. [Note: See Smalley, p. 75; and E. Malatesta, Interiority and Covenant. A Study of einai en and menein en in the First Letter of Saint John, pp. 168-69.] 