1 John 5:21
Litle children, keepe your selues from idoles, Amen.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 20:3Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me.
1 Corinthians 10:7Neither bee ye idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.
2 Corinthians 6:16And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God: as God hath said, I will dwell among them, and walke there: and I will be their God, and they shalbe my people.
1 John 2:1My little children, these things write I vnto you, that ye sinne not: and if any man sinne, wee haue an Aduocate with the Father, Iesus Christ, the Iust.
Revelation 13:14And deceiued them that dwell on the earth by the signes, which were permitted to him to doe in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make the image of the beast, which had the wound of a sword, and did liue.
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 →