And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.
1 John 5:21 - New Revised Standard Version Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) My little children, guard yourselves from idols. Common English Bible Little children, guard yourselves from idols! Catholic Public Domain Version Little sons, keep yourselves from false worship. Amen. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. |
And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.
Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.”
For the people of those regions report about us what kind of welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image and for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
The rest of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands or give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.