Parallel Verses
Thomas Haweis New Testament
My dear children, guard yourselves against idols. Amen.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Holman Bible
Little children, guard yourselves from idols.
International Standard Version
Little children, keep yourselves away from idols.
A Conservative Version
Little children, guard yourselves from the idols. Truly.
American Standard Version
My little children, guard yourselves from idols.
Amplified
Little children (believers, dear ones), guard yourselves from idols—[false teachings, moral compromises, and anything that would take God’s place in your heart].
An Understandable Version
Little children [i.e., dear ones], protect yourselves from [worshiping] idols.
Anderson New Testament
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Bible in Basic English
My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.
Common New Testament
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Daniel Mace New Testament
dear children, keep yourselves from idols. AMEN.
Darby Translation
Children, keep yourselves from idols.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Godbey New Testament
Little children, keep yourselves from the idols.
Goodspeed New Testament
Dear children, keep away from idols.
John Wesley New Testament
Beloved children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Julia Smith Translation
Little children, watch yourselves from idols. Amen.
King James 2000
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Little children, guard yourselves from idols.
Modern King James verseion
Little children, guard yourselves from idols. Amen.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Little children, beware of images. Amen. {Here ends the First General Epistle of John}
Moffatt New Testament
My dear children, keep clear of idols.
Montgomery New Testament
My little children, guard yourselves from idols.
NET Bible
Little children, guard yourselves from idols.
New Heart English Bible
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Noyes New Testament
My children, keep yourselves from idols.
Sawyer New Testament
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
The Emphasized Bible
Dear children! Guard yourselves from idols.
Twentieth Century New Testament
My Children, guard yourselves against false ideas of God.
Webster
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Weymouth New Testament
Dear children, guard yourselves from idols.
Williams New Testament
Dear children, once for all put yourselves beyond the reach of idols.
World English Bible
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Worrell New Testament
Little children, guard yourselves from idols.
Worsley New Testament
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Youngs Literal Translation
Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.
Themes
Christian conduct » Keep thyself, special exhortations to
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 5:21
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Prayers for 1 John 5:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Our Assurance Of Eternal Life
20 But we know that the Son of God hath come, and hath given to us understanding, that we might know the true God; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus the Messiah. HE is the true God, and the life eternal. 21 My dear children, guard yourselves against idols. Amen.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:14
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
1 Corinthians 10:7
Neither be ye idolaters as some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to sport themselves."
1 John 2:1
MY dear children, these things I write to you, that ye should not sin. And if any of us sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen!
2 Corinthians 6:16-17
or what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will inhabit in them, and walk about in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be for me a people."
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they publish concerning you what manner of entrance we had unto you, and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve the living and true God,
Revelation 9:20
And the residue of mankind, who were not slain by these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of wood, and of stone: which can neither see nor hear, nor walk:
Revelation 13:14-15
and deceiveth the inhabitants of the earth by the signs, which he is enabled to perform before the beast, saying to the dwellers upon the earth, that they should make an image for the beast who had the stroke of the sword, and survived.
Revelation 14:11
and the smoke of their torment ascendeth for ever and ever: and they have no respite day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the brand of his name.