We can overcome the world, if we are born of God  -1 John 5:4-5

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

John revealed the secret of victory over the world. The world system is a monstrous scheme of temptation, always trying to drag us away from God and the things which are eternal, and to try to get us to be occupied with that which is temporary and sensual. Only the one who is born of God overcomes the world, because by faith, they are able to rise above the perishing things of this world and to see things in their true, eternal perspective.