The True God
1 John 5:21
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Little children, keep yourselves from idols.BYZ and TR include Amen.
- KJV
- Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
- WEB
- Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
- ASV
- My little children, guard yourselves from idols.
- LSV
- Little children, guard yourselves from idols! Amen.
- YLT
- Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.
- DBY
- Children, keep yourselves from idols.
- DRC
- Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
- GNV
- Litle children, keepe your selues from idoles, Amen.
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text read ἑαυτὰ (“yourselves”); Textus Receptus read ἑαυτοὺς (“yourselves”).
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include ἀμήν.¶ (“Amen”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.
- SBLGNT: εἰδώλων. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read εἰδώλων; Robinson–Pierpont add Ἀμήν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- Τεκνία, φυλάξατε ἑαυτὰ ἀπὸ τῶν εἰδώλων.
- RP2018
- Τεκνία, φυλάξατε ἑαυτὰ ἀπὸ τῶν εἰδώλων. Ἀμήν.
- TR-Boyd
- Τεκνία, φυλάξατε ἑαυτοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν εἰδώλων. Ἀμήν.
- SCR1894
- τεκνια φυλαξατε εαυτους απο των ειδωλων αμην
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Corinthians 10:14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
- 1 Corinthians 10:7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
- Exodus 20:3–4You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16–17What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”…
- 1 Thessalonians 1:9For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
- Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
- Revelation 9:20Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or…
- 1 John 2:1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- Revelation 13:14–15Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived. The…
- Revelation 14:11And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).