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1 The Elder to the elect lady and her children. Truly I love you all, and not I alone, but also all who know the truth,
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1 The elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth--and not I only, but also all who know the truth--
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2 for the sake of the truth which is continually in our hearts and will be with us for ever.
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2 because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever:
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3 Grace, mercy and peace will be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
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3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, will be with us in truth and love.
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4 It is an intense joy to me to have found some of your children living true Christian lives, in obedience to the command which we have received from the Father.
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4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us.
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5 And now, dear lady, I pray you--writing to you, as I do, not a new command, but the one which we have had from the very beginning--let us love one another.
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5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.
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6 The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.
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6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
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7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world--men who do not acknowledge Jesus as Christ who has come in human nature. Such a one is `the deceiver' and `the anti-Christ.'
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7 Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
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8 Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward.
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8 Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.
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9 No one has God, who instead of remaining true to the teaching of Christ, presses on in advance: but he who remains true to that teaching has both the Father and the Son.
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9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
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10 If any one who comes to you does not bring this teaching, do not receive him under your roof nor bid him Farewell.
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10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him.
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11 He who bids him Farewell is a sharer in his evil deeds.
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11 Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.
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12 I have a great deal to say to you all, but will not write it with paper and ink. Yet I hope to come to see you and speak face to face, so that your happiness may be complete.
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12 I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
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13 The children of your elect sister send greetings to you.
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13 The children of your chosen sister send their greetings.
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