2 John 1:2-12

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2 for ¹the sake of the truth which abides ²in us and will be ³with us forever:

3 ⁴Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

4 ⁵I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father.

5 Now I ask you, lady, ⁶not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had ⁷from the beginning, that we ⁸love one another.

6 And ⁹this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, ¹⁰just as you have heard ¹¹from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

7 For ¹²many deceivers have ¹³gone out into the world, those who ¹⁴do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is ¹⁵the deceiver and the ¹⁶antichrist.

8 ¹⁷Watch yourselves, ¹⁸that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.

9 ^[a]Anyone who ^[b]goes too far and ¹⁹does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.

10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, ²⁰do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting;

11 for the one who gives him a greeting ²¹participates in his evil deeds.

12 ²²Though I have many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, so that ^[c]your ²³joy may be made full.

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