<p>5:21- see on Job 34:4,5.</p><p><i>Test all things. Hold fast to what is good</i>- As noted on :20, there were gifts of prophecy available in order to teach the new, illiterate communities what was the Lord's word for them. But there were false prophets around, and so the various prophetic words had to be tested. There was apparently a Spirit gift specifically for this (1 Jn. 4:1; 1 Cor. 14:29 and see on Rom. 9:1). When a prophetic word was authenticated as legitimate, they were to &quot;hold fast&quot; to it and to generally &quot;what is good&quot;. And by doing so, they would &quot;abstain from evil&quot; (:22).</p>