2 John 1:4-13

4 ¹I 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, ²not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had ³from the beginning, that we ⁴love one another.

6 And ⁵this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, ⁶just as you have heard ⁷from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

7 For ⁸many deceivers have ⁹gone out into the world, those who ¹⁰do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is ¹¹the deceiver and the ¹²antichrist.

8 ¹³Watch yourselves, ¹⁴that 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 ¹⁵does 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, ¹⁶do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting;

11 for the one who gives him a greeting ¹⁷participates in his evil deeds.

12 ¹⁸Though 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 ¹⁹joy may be made full.

13 The children of your ²⁰chosen sister greet you.

Cross References

• 1. 3 John 3
• 2. 1 John 2:7
• 3. 1 John 2:7
• 4. John 13:34, 35; John 15:12, 17; 1 John 3:11; 1 John 4:7, 11
• 5. 1 John 2:5; 1 John 5:3
• 6. 1 John 2:24
• 7. 1 John 2:7
• 8. 1 John 2:26
• 9. 1 John 2:19; 1 John 4:1
• 10. 1 John 4:2
• 11. 1 John 2:26
• 12. 1 John 2:18
• 13. Mark 13:9
• 14. 1 Corinthians 3:8; Hebrews 10:35
• 15. John 7:16; John 8:31; 1 John 2:23
• 16. 1 Kings 13:16; Romans 16:17; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14; Titus 3:10
• 17. Ephesians 5:11; 1 Timothy 5:22; Jude 23
• 18. 3 John 13, 14
• 19. John 3:29; 1 John 1:4
• 20. 2 John 1

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "Everyone"
• [b] Lit "goes on ahead"
• [c] One early ms reads "our"