Parallel Verses
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.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
My dear children, guard yourselves against idols. Amen.
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
Images 1 John 5:21
Prayers for 1 John 5:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Our Assurance Of Eternal Life
20
But we know that the Son of God is come and has given us understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:14
Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
1 Corinthians 10:7
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I write these things unto you, that ye sin not; and if anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate before the Father, Jesus, the righteous Christ;
Exodus 20:3-4
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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 forever. Amen.
2 Corinthians 6:16-17
And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves tell of us what an entrance we had unto you and in what manner ye were converted to God from idols to serve the living and true God
Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons and the images of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk.
Revelation 13:14-15
and deceives those that dwell on the earth by those signs which were given unto him to do in the presence of the beast, commanding those that dwell on the earth to make an image of the beast, which has the wound by the sword, and did live.
Revelation 14:11
and the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever; and those that worship the beast and its image and whosoever receives the mark of its name, have no rest day or night.