Dear children, keep away from statues of gods.

小子们哪，你们要自守，远避偶像！

孩子们哪，你们要远避偶像。

孩子们哪，你们要远避偶像。

孩子们啊，你们要远离偶像！

孩子们，你们要保守自己远离偶像。

孩子们哪，你们要保守自己远离偶像。

小子們哪，你們要自守，遠避偶像！

孩子們哪，你們要遠避偶像。

孩子們哪，你們要遠避偶像。

孩子們啊，你們要遠離偶像！

孩子們，你們要保守自己遠離偶像。

小子們，你們要自守，遠避偶像。

孩子們哪，你們要保守自己遠離偶像。

小子乎、宜自守、而遠偶像、

小子、慎毋拜偶像、

小子乎、爾當自慎、遠避偶像、遠避偶像或作勿拜偶像阿們、

務望小子對於一切偶像、避之若浼也。

Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

My little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

My dear friends, run away from statues of gods. Don’t worship them.

So don’t worship statues of gods, as some of them did. It is written,“ The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to dance wildly in front of their god.”( Exodus 32:6)

My dear children, I’m writing this to you so that you will not sin. But suppose someone does sin. Then we have a friend who speaks to the Father for us. He is Jesus Christ, the Blameless One.

Keep us from sinning when we are tempted. Save us from the evil one.’

How can the temple of the true God and the statues of other gods agree? We are the temple of the living God. God has said,“ I will live with them. I will walk among them. I will be their God. And they will be my people.”( Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27)So,“ Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch anything that is not pure and‘ clean.’ Then I will receive you.”( Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34, 41)

The first beast had given the second beast the power to perform these signs. By these signs, the second beast tricked those who live on the earth. The second beast ordered people to set up a statue to honor the first beast. The first beast was the one who had been wounded by a sword and still lived.The second beast was allowed to give breath to this statue so it could speak. The statue could kill all who refused to worship it.

The believers themselves report the kind of welcome you gave us. They tell about how you turned away from statues of gods. And you turned to serve the living and true God.

“ Do not put any other gods in place of me.“ Do not make for yourself statues of gods that look like anything in the sky. They may not look like anything on the earth or in the waters either.

There were people who were not killed by these plagues. But they still didn’t turn away from what they had been doing. They did not stop worshiping demons. They kept worshiping statues of gods made out of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood. These statues can’t see or hear or walk.