📖 Biblical Definition
"Victory faith" is the apostle John’s phrase for the faith that overcomes the world. "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith" (1 John 5:4). The victory does not belong to faith as a virtue in itself — as if mere believing produced its own conquest. It belongs to faith because faith lays hold on Christ, who has already overcome (John 16:33: "be of good cheer; I have overcome the world"). Faith does not win the war; faith joins the winner. The Christian therefore fights from victory, not for it — refusing both presumption and despair, casting himself again on the Christ in whom every battle has already been decided.
📜 Webster 1828 Definition
VICTORY, n. The defeat of an enemy in battle; conquest; success in any contest.
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1. Conquest; the defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in contest. 2. Success in any contest. 3. In Scripture, especially the triumph over sin, death, the world, and the devil, won by Christ and applied to believers through faith in Him.
📖 Key Scripture
1 John 5:4 — "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."
1 John 5:5 — "Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?"
1 Corinthians 15:57 — "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans 8:37 — "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."
⚠️ Modern Corruption
Twisted into a name-it-claim-it formula or a self-confidence mantra.
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Prosperity preachers turn “faith is the victory” into a slogan for getting what you want. Therapeutic religion turns it into self-belief. Both put the weight on the believer's faith rather than on Christ, the believer's object.
John's grammar is precise: faith overcomes because it believes Jesus is the Son of God. The strength is not in the faith but in the One faith holds. We are more than conquerors—through Him that loved us.
🔗 Greek & Hebrew Roots
Greek nikē and nikaō — victory, to conquer.
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G3529 — nikē — victory
G3528 — nikaō — to conquer, overcome
G5245 — hupernikaō — to be more than conqueror
Usage
"Faith does not conquer; faith holds the Conqueror."
"You are not more than conqueror by your faith, but by Him your faith holds."
"The world is overcome by a Person; faith is the hand that grips Him."