2 John 1:5-11

Watch Out for False Teachers

5 And now I ask you, lady (not as [if I were] writing a new commandment to you, but [one] that we have had from the beginning), that we should love one another.

6 And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess Jesus Christ^[a] coming in [the] flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

8 Watch yourselves that you do not lose what we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

9 Everyone who goes too far and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in the teaching--this person has both the Father and the Son.

10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into [your] house and do not speak a greeting to him,

11 because the one who speaks a greeting to him shares in his evil deeds.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "confess Jesus [as] Christ coming in [the] flesh" (see 1 John 4:2)