1 John 5:21 Cross References - AUV

²¹ Little children [i.e., dear ones], protect yourselves from [worshiping] idols.

¹³ And do not allow us to fall under temptation, but deliver us from [being harmed by] the evil one.’

⁷ [So], do not worship idols as some of them did, as it is written [Ex. 32:6], “The people sat down to feast and drink, then got up and played.” [Note: This refers to the Israelites engaging in an orgy of dancing and sex. See Ex. 32:17-19].

¹⁴ Therefore, my dearly loved ones, run away from idol worship.

¹⁶ And what agreement is there between a temple of God and idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said [Lev. 26:12], “I will live in them and walk among them [i.e., among His people]; and I will be their God and they will be my people.” ¹⁷ Therefore, the Lord says [Isa. 52:11], “You people should leave their company [i.e., unbelievers, verse 14] and separate yourselves from them, and do not touch anything unclean [i.e., their evil practices], and I will welcome you.”

⁹ For those people themselves report on what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you people turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God.

¹ My little children [i.e., dear ones], I am writing this to you so that you will not sin anymore. But if anyone does sin, we have Someone to go to the Father on our behalf; it is Jesus Christ, the [only] righteous One.

²⁰ And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, [still] did not repent of what they had made with their hands [i.e., their idolatry]. They did not stop worshiping demons, and gold, silver, brass, stone and wooden idols, which can neither see, nor hear nor walk.

¹⁴ [And] by being given [power] to perform these signs in the sight of the [first] beast, he deceived the people on earth. He told them to make a statue to [honor] the [first] beast, who had been wounded by a sword and yet lived [through it]. ¹⁵ Now the [second] beast was given [the power] to give breath to the statue of the [first] beast, so that it could both speak and cause all those who refused to worship the statue of the [first] beast to be killed.

¹¹ And the smoke of their suffering will ascend forever and ever and there will not be any rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his statue and who receive the mark of his name.”