2John - Chapter 1 | American Standard Version

  • 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 {cf15i 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, {cf15i 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 {cf15i 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 {cf15i write them} with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy may be made full.
  • 13. The children of thine elect sister salute thee.
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