1 John 5:21 - Tree of Life Version Children, guard 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. |
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”
For they themselves bring news about what kind of welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,
My children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an Intercessor with the Father—the righteous Messiah Yeshua.
The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. Those who worship the beast and its image and those who receive the mark of his name have no rest day or night.”
But the rest of mankind, those not killed by these plagues, did not repent and turn away from the works of their hands—they would not stop worshiping demons and the idols of gold and silver and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.