Parallel Verses
Webster
Little children, keep yourselves from 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.
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.
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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References
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 5:21
Prayers for 1 John 5:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Our Assurance Of Eternal Life
20 And we know that the Son of God hath come, and hath given us an 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. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Names
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:14
Wherefore, 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, these things I write to you, that ye sin not. And if any man sinneth, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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, for ever. Amen.
2 Corinthians 6:16-17
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath 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 show of us what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned 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 yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Revelation 13:14-15
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and lived.
Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receiveth the mark of his name.