1 John 5:21
Yeladim, keep yourselves from elilim. + 5:21 Jer 5:18
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 20:3Thou shalt have no elohim acherim in My presence.
1 Corinthians 10:7Neither should you become ovdei elilim (idolaters), as some of them did, as it has been written, “And the people sat to eat and to drink and they got up to revel.” + 10:7 Ex 32:6
2 Corinthians 6:16And what agreement has the Heikhal of Hashem with elilim? For we are a Heikhal of the Elohim Chayyim + 6:16 1C 3:16; 6:19 as G-d said, V'HITHALLACHTI B'TOCHCHEM (And I will walk in the midst of you), + 6:16 Lv 26:12 IT WILL BE MISHKANI ALEHEM (dwelling place of me with them), + 6:16 Ezek 37:27 V'HAYU LI L'AM VAANI EHEYEH LAHEM LELOHIM (And they will be to me as people and I will be to them as G-d). + 6:16 Jer 32:38
1 John 2:1My yeladim, these things I write to you so that you do not commit averos. And if anyone does commit averos, a Melitz Yosher (Advocate) we have with HaAv, Yehoshua/Yeshua, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach the Tzaddik.
Revelation 13:14And it leads kol ha'aretz (all the earth) into hona'ah (deception) because of the otot (signs) which were given to it to perform before the Chayyah (Beast), telling the ones dwelling on ha'aretz (the earth) to make an Atzav + 13:14 Atzav in verses 14 and 15, see 1Sm 31:9; Isa 21:9 (idol, image, PESEL, graven image) to the Chayyah (Anti-Moshiach) who has the wound of the cherev (sword) and yet came alive again.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 5:19-21
Privileges of Believers. ( a. d. 80.) 18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. 19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 20 And we know that the Son of God is 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.… Read the whole commentary →