2 John 1
1
Greeting
1The Elder: # Or Presbyter
To the elect # Rm 16:13; 1Pt 5:13; 2Jn 13 lady # Or Kyria, a proper name; probably a literary figure for a local church known to John; the children would be its members. and her children: I love all of you in the truth — and not only I, but also all who have come to know the truth # Jn 8:32; 14:6; 1Tm 2:4 — 2because of the truth that remains in us # 1Jn 1:8 and will be with us forever.
3Grace, mercy, and peace # 1Tm 1:2; 2Tm 1:2 will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son # Heb 1:2 of the Father, in truth and love. # 1Jn 4:12
Truth and Deception
4I was very glad to find some of your children walking in the truth, # 3Jn 3-4 in keeping with a command we have received from the Father. 5So now I urge you, dear lady — not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning — that we love one another. # 1Jn 3:11 6And this is love: # 1Jn 2:5; 5:3 that we walk according to His commands. # Ps 103:18; Mk 7:8; Jn 14:15,21,23; 15:10 This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love. # Lit in it
7Many deceivers have gone out into the world; they do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. # Or confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh # Php 3:3 This is the deceiver and the antichrist. # 1Jn 2:18,22; 4:3 8Watch yourselves so you don’t lose what we # Other mss read you have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward. # 2Pt 2:13 9Anyone who does not remain in Christ’s teaching # Jn 8:31-32; 1Jn 2:21-23,27 but goes beyond it, does not have God. # Jn 5:12; 8:41; 1Jn 2:23 The one who remains # Jn 15:4-16 in that teaching, this one has both the Father # Mt 11:27 and the Son. # Heb 1:2; 1Jn 2:23 10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive # Jn 1:12; 6:21; 13:20 him into your home, and don’t say, “Welcome,” to him; 11for the one who says, “Welcome,” to him shares # 1Tm 5:22 in his evil works. # Eph 5:11; 1Tm 5:22; Jd 23
Farewell
12Though I have many things to write to you, # 3Jn 13 I don’t want to do so with paper and ink. Instead, I hope to be with you and talk face to face # Lit mouth to mouth so that our joy # Jn 15:11 may be complete.
13The children of your elect sister send you greetings.
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2 John 1
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1The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,
2because of the truth that is remaining in us, and with us shall be to the age,
3there shall be with you grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
4I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;
5and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,
6and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,
7because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.
8See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;
9every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;
10if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, ‘Hail!’
11for he who is saying to him, ‘Hail,’ hath fellowship with his evil works.
12Many things having to write to you, I did not intend through paper and ink, but I hope to come unto you, and speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full;
13salute thee do the children of thy choice sister. Amen.
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