1 John 5:21 - English Standard Version 2016 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Matoleo zaidiKing 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 report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the 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, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,