Verse 21. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Keep yourselves from worshiping idols is the thought. Flee from it ! There have been idols in every age of the world's history; there are idols now; these, the Christian must shun. Whatever leads us away from the true worship of God is an idol to be avoided. John, having so spoken, concludes his letter with a solemn Amen.
1 JOHN 5:21 eivdw,lwn) {A} After eivdw,lwn the Textus Receptus, following K L P 81 614 _Byz Lect,_ reads avmh,n, a common liturgical addition. The earlier text, without avmh,n, is strongly supported...
Verse 1 John 5:21. _LITTLE CHILDREN_] τεκνια. _Beloved children_; he concludes with the same affectionate feeling with which he commenced. _KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS._] Avoid the idolatry of the he...
LITTLE CHILDREN - This is a favorite mode of address with John, (see the notes at 1 John 2:1), and it was proper to use it in giving his parting counsel; embracing, in fact, all that he had to say - t...
VI. CONCLUSION CHAPTER 5:14-21 The conclusion of this great Epistle mentions first the practical confidence which a believer may have, the outcome of that relationship and fellowship with the Father...
CONCLUSION. A reminder of the writer's purpose, an assertion of the value and also the limitations of intercessory prayer, and a summary of the teaching of the epistle. 1 JOHN 5:13. THAT. LIFE: John...
LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
LITTLE CHILDREN. App-108. KEEP. guard, as Jude 1:24. FROM. App-104. IDOLS. As in 1 Corinthians 8:4. An idol may not be. material one, but may consist in whatever. man looks to for help, apart from t...
Conclusion and Summary Some modern writers consider that 1 John 5:13 constitutes the conclusion of the Epistle, the remainder (14 21) being a postscript or appendix, analogous to chap. 21. of the Gos...
Farewell Warning _Little children_ As usual (1Jn 2:1; 1 John 2:12; 1Jn 2:28, 1 John 3:7; 1 John 3:18; 1 John 4:4), this refers to all his readers. keep
13–21. CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY Some modern writers consider that 1 John 5:13 constitutes the conclusion of the Epistle, the remainder (14–21) being a postscript or appendix, analogous to chap. 21 of t...
21. Omit the final ἀμήν with [831][832][833] and most Versions against [834][835]. [831] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Pete...
ΦΥΛΆΞΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΦΥΛΆΣΣΩ (G5442) стеречь, хранить. Использование формы _act._ с возвратным местоимением может рассматриваться как выделение необходимости приложить личные усилия (Westcot...
KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS— "Upon the whole then, my dear children, whom I as affectionately love as a father does his tender babes, let all these considerations engage you to abstain from every appea...
CHAPTER XVI _HEREBY WE KNOW_ 1 John 5:13-21 A. _The text_ These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God...
Affectionate parting caution. FROM IDOLS - Christians were everywhere surrounded by idolaters with whom it was impossible to avoid some contact. Hence, the need of being on their guard against an ind...
6 It is a remarkable fact that the word _ testify _ is used concerning the Lord's baptism in water (Joh_1:34), and concerning His crucifixion (Joh_19:35), and here again of the spirit (6). This is con...
THE LOVE, OBEDIENCE, AND ASSURANCE OF BELIEVERS 1. The reason for brotherly love. 2. This is the converse of 1 John 4:19. Love to God and love to the brethren being inseparable, each is the test of...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 5 *FAITH OVERCOMES THE *WORLD (1 JOHN 5:1-5) V1 Jesus is the *Christ. Everyone who believes this has been born of God. Everyone who loves the fa...
(3) SOME PRACTICAL POINTS RECAPITULATED (1 John 5:18). (_a_) _God’s sons do not sin_ (1 John 5:18). St. John refers back to “that ye may know” in 1 John 5:13, and sums up three points from former po...
CHAPTER 1 PART 1 1 John THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN. 1 John 5:21 AFTER the example of a writer of genius, preachers and essayists for the last forty years have constantly app...
The Epistle is finished, and the Apostle now speaks his closing words. “These things I wrote to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even to you that believe in the name of the Son of God....
_Filioli, custodite vos a simulacris_ (Vulg.). The exhortation arises naturally. “This” this God revealed and made near and sure in Christ “is the True God and Life Eternal. Cleave to Him, and do not...
ASK ACCORDING TO HIS WILL 1 John 5:13 We know that we have eternal life. The rope is in our hand bearing us onward, but its ends are hidden from view in the past and in the future. We also know that...
The final subject is our fellowship with God in life. This is fundamental, and is shown to be so. The relationship between the life of God and the love of God is self-evident, and that is equally true...
"SIN LEADING TO DEATH" John next wrote about a "sin leading to death." Several other passages in scripture appear to speak of that sin (Hebrews 6:4-6; Hebrews 10:26-27; 2 Peter 2:20-22;...
(19) Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. (19) He expresses a plain precept of taking heed of idols: which he contrasts with the only true God, that with this seal he might seal up all...
_Keep yourselves from idols. An admonition to the new converted Christians, lest, conversing with heathens and idolaters, they might fall back into the sin of idolatry, which may be the sin unto death...
REFLECTIONS Reader! how gracious was it in our God, to give his Church such tokens as are here marked down, in order that every child of God might know; his having been begotten, to the adoption of c...
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: (15) And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petition...
21_Keep yourselves from idols _Though this be a separate sentence, yet it is as it were an appendix to the preceding doctrine. For the vivifying light of the Gospel ought to scatter and dissipate, not...
But a danger exists on the other side. It may be, that we love the brethren because they are pleasant to us; they furnish us with agreeable society, in which our conscience is not wounded. A counter-p...
LITTLE CHILDREN, KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS, AMEN. From Heathen idols and idolatry, into which the saints in those times might be liable to be drawn, by reason of their dwelling among Heathen idolater...
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. Ver. 21. _Keep yourselves from idols_] Negatively at least (as those 7000 in Israel, that had not bowed their knees to Baal), if not positively, by...
_We know_ By all these infallible proofs; _that the Son of God is come_ Into the world; _and hath given us an understanding_ Hath enlightened our minds; _that we may know him that is true_ The living...
FROM IDOLS; from idolatry literal and spiritual; from worshipping or regarding supremely any created thing....
LITTLE CHILDREN, KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS. AMEN. Having given the assurance that every true prayer of a Christian is heard by God, the apostle now specifies one form of prayer, that of intercession:...
The obligations of divine sonship:...
“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and everyone that loveth Him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of Him.” The faith that Jesus is the Christ is here seen to corre...
18-21 All mankind are divided into two parties or dominions; that which belongs to God, and that which belongs to the wicked one. True believers belong to God: they are of God, and from him, and to h...
i.e. From those idolatrous communions with the Gentiles in their worship and festivals in their temples, which these pseudo-christians had latitude enough for, as appears by the apostle St. Paul's dis...
Tertullian De Corona Even an earthly serpent sucks in men at some distance with its breath. Going still further, John says, "My little children, keep yourselves from idols,"[37]...
1 John 5:21 children G5040 keep G5442 (G5657) yourselves G1438 from G575 idols G1497 Amen G281 Little -...
THEY ARE TO KEEP THEMSELVES OUT OF THE ARMS OF THE EVIL ONE (1 JOHN 5:21). ‘Little children, guard yourselves from idols.' It is regularly said that this comes as a rather strange comment at the end...
CONCLUSION (1 JOHN 5:14). John concludes his letter with four major points. 1) The certainty that Christians can have of victory through prayer. In the face of all that confronts them they can be bo...
The Epistle winds up with three summarizing declarations, each of which repeats the watchword, ‘we know,' taken, but in a better sense, from the Gnostic ‘we know:' the first, 1 John 5:18, asserts the...
YOURSELVES (εαυτα). Neuter plural reflexive because of τεκνια. The active voice φυλασσετε with the reflexive accents the need of effort on their part. Idolatry was everywhere and the peril was grea...
1 John 5:21 Idols. I. Let us glance at three forms of idolatry against which we must ever be on our guard. (1) There is the worship of other gods, or false gods: the worship of Moloch, and Baalim, an...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God._ Take comfort, believer, from that declaration. You have accepted Jesus as the Christ the anointed of God, so the apostle aff...
CONTENTS: Faith the overcoming principle. The advantages of faith in salvation, prayer, preservation from sin. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Satan, John. CONCLUSION: He who has been born agai...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God._ The faith which embraces him as the Lord of glory, has a regenerating influence on the heart. The immediate fruit is love to...
KEEP YOURSELVES SAFE. The _false gods_ were probably not idols such as were at Ephesus and Athens. John is certainly speaking about the false ideas of God which the false teachers substituted for the...
_Little children, keep yourselves from idols _ THE SIN OF IDOLISING I. What is the right notion of idolatry, as it still prevails even among nominal Christians?” I answer generally; whatever is so de...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:13 Final Call to Faith and Understanding. “Know” occurs seven times in these verses. This indicates John’s focus on the assurance of Christian faith and salvation....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 5:13 may be treated as a summary and conclusion. They divide into three parts: 1. Faith in the Son of God, eternal life, and love of the brethren showing itsel...
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Chuck Smith Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him (1 John 5:1). So I say, "I love Jesus. He is...
1 Corinthians 10:14; 1 Corinthians 10:7; 1 John 2:1; 2 Corinthians 6:16;...
Keep yourselves [φ υ λ α ξ α τ ε ε α υ τ α]. The exact phrase is not found elsewhere in the New Testament. See 2 Peter 3:17. Rev., rightly, guard. See on 1 Peter 1:4. Idols [ε ι δ ω λ ω ν]. Strictly,...
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Keep yourselves from idols — From all worship of false gods, from all worship of images or of any creature, and from every inward idol; from loving, desiring, fearing anything more than God. Seek all...