1 John 5:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

1 John 5:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Exodus 20:3-4
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. …
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 shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

Topics

Adultery Commandments Discipleship Disobedience to God Duty Gentiles Godliness Gods

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-21)

Here we have, I. A recapitulation of the privileges and advantages of sound Christian believers. 1. They are secured against sin, against the fulness of its dominion or the fulness of its guilt: We know that whosoever is born of God (and the believer in Christ is born of God, 1 John 5:1) sinneth not (1 John 5:18), sinneth not with that fulness of heart and spirit that the unregenerate do (as was s…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. Affectionate parting caution. from idols--Christians were then everywhere surrounded by idolaters, with whom it was impossible to avoid intercourse. Hence the need of being on their guard against any even indirect compromise or act of communion with idolatry. Some at Pergamos, in the region whence John wrote, fell into the snare of eating things sacrificed to idols. The moment we cease to abid…