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2ND
JOHN
1
¶ The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not
I only, but also all they that know the truth;
2 for the truth’s sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever:
3 Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the Father, and from Jesus
Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
4 I rejoice greatly that I have found [certain] of thy children walking in
truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.
5 ¶ And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new
commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
6 And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the
commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.
7 ¶ For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess
not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the
antichrist.
8 Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but
that ye receive a full reward.
9 Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not
God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.
10 ¶ If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him
not into [your] house, and give him no greeting:
11 for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.
12 ¶ Having many things to write unto you, I would not [write them] with paper
and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy
may be fulfilled.
13 The children of thine elect sister salute thee.
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