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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

  • Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

  • 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.

  • Thou shalt have no other gods before me. …

  • 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. …

  • 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;

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…

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