1 João 5

1 João 5:21

Calvin on idols - “Godliness is corrupted whenever a corporeal figure is ascribed to God, or whenever statues and pictures are set up for worship....Let us therefore remember that we should be so careful to remain in the spiritual worship of God as to banish far from us everything that may turn us aside to gross and carnal superstitions.” C H Dodd gives the following exhortation on idols - “It behooves the individual Christian to be on his guard against any such God-substitute, whether it be a political idea, or some fashionable cult, or merely the product of his own ‘wishful thinking.’" Amen - Is added in the KJV (based on the Textus Receptus) but is not in the more modern translations. NET Note on Amen - Most later MSS (P M) have amēn (“amen”) at the end of this letter. Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Ro 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 1:25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding amen in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, amen is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, the earliest and best witnesses, along with several others (א A B Ψ 33 323 630 1505 1739 al sy co), lack the inoffensive particle, rendering its omission as the authentic reading. One thing there is which should never satisfy and content us; and that is, “anything that stands between our souls and Christ.” J C