1 John 5:21 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²¹ Little children [i.e., dear ones], protect yourselves from [worshiping] idols.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Little children, keep yourselves from idols (false gods)–[from anything and everything that would occupy the place in your heart due to God, from any sort of substitute for Him that would take first place in your life]. Amen (so let it be).

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ My little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Common English Bible

²¹ Little children, guard yourselves from idols!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Little sons, keep yourselves from false worship. Amen.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

1 John 5:21 Cross References

Matthew 6:13

And do not allow us to fall under temptation, but deliver us from [being harmed by] the evil one.’

1 Corinthians 10:14

Therefore, my dearly loved ones, run away from idol worship.

1 Corinthians 10:7

[So], do not worship idols as some of them did, as it is written [Ex. 32:6], “The people sat down to feast and drink, then got up and played.” [Note: This refers to the Israelites engaging in an orgy of dancing and sex. See Ex. 32:17- 19].

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For those people themselves report on what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you people turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God.

1 John 2:1

My little children [i.e., dear ones], I am writing this to you so that you will not sin anymore. But if anyone does sin, we have Someone to go to the Father on our behalf; it is Jesus Christ, the [only] righteous One.

Revelation 14:11

And the smoke of their suffering will ascend forever and ever and there will not be any rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his statue and who receive the mark of his name.”

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, [still] did not repent of what they had made with their hands [i.e., their idolatry]. They did not stop worshiping demons, and gold, silver, brass, stone and wooden idols, which can neither see, nor hear nor walk.