2 John 1:1-8

Walk According to His Commandments

1 ¹The elder to the ²chosen ³lady and her children, whom I ⁴love in truth; and not only I, but also all who ⁵know the truth,

2 for ⁶the sake of the truth which abides ⁷in us and will be ⁸with us forever:

3 ⁹Grace, 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 ¹⁰I 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, ¹¹not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had ¹²from the beginning, that we ¹³love one another.

6 And ¹⁴this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, ¹⁵just as you have heard ¹⁶from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

7 For ¹⁷many deceivers have ¹⁸gone out into the world, those who ¹⁹do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is ²⁰the deceiver and the ²¹antichrist.

8 ²²Watch yourselves, ²³that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 11:30; 1 Peter 5:1; 3 John 1
• 2. Romans 16:13; 1 Peter 5:13; 2 John 13
• 3. 2 John 5
• 4. 1 John 3:18; 2 John 3; 3 John 1
• 5. John 8:32; 1 Timothy 2:4
• 6. 2 Peter 1:12
• 7. 1 John 1:8
• 8. John 14:16
• 9. Romans 1:7; 1 Timothy 1:2
• 10. 3 John 3
• 11. 1 John 2:7
• 12. 1 John 2:7
• 13. John 13:34, 35; John 15:12, 17; 1 John 3:11; 1 John 4:7, 11
• 14. 1 John 2:5; 1 John 5:3
• 15. 1 John 2:24
• 16. 1 John 2:7
• 17. 1 John 2:26
• 18. 1 John 2:19; 1 John 4:1
• 19. 1 John 4:2
• 20. 1 John 2:26
• 21. 1 John 2:18
• 22. Mark 13:9
• 23. 1 Corinthians 3:8; Hebrews 10:35