2 Juan 1:4

4 Me alegré muchísimo al encontrarme con algunos de ustedes^[a] que están practicando la verdad, según el mandamiento que nos dio el Padre.

2 Juan 1:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 John 1:4

I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children
Not all, but some of them; for good parents have not always good children, or at least not all of them; Adam had a Cain, Abraham an Ishmael, and Isaac an Esau: God is pleased to show his discriminating grace in tribes and families, by taking some, and leaving others: it is a great mercy when any are called by grace, and instead of the fathers are the children: and this was the case of some of the children of this elect lady, they were

walking in the truth:
in Christ, the truth, by faith, as they had received him; and in the truth of the Gospel, as they had embraced and professed it; they abode in it, and by it, and made a proficiency in the knowledge of it, which may be signified by walking, that being a progressive action: as also they walked according to it, and as became it; and likewise they walked in the truth of Gospel worship, discipline, and ordinances:

as we have received a commandment from the Father;
and which has been made known by Jesus Christ, as his mind and will. Now as it is matter of joy and gladness to godly parents when their children walk in the paths of faith, truth, and holiness, so it is also to ministers of the Gospel, as well as to the angels in heaven; it gives them an inward pleasure and joy, and which is not only expressed by them, to such children and their parents, but is also abundant by many thanksgivings unto God.

2 Juan 1:4 In-Context

2 a causa de esa verdad que permanece en nosotros y que estará con nosotros para siempre:

3 La gracia, la misericordia y la paz de Dios el Padre y de Jesucristo, el Hijo del Padre, estarán con nosotros en verdad y en amor.

4 Me alegré muchísimo al encontrarme con algunos de ustedes que están practicando la verdad, según el mandamiento que nos dio el Padre.

5 Y ahora, hermanos, les ruego que nos amemos los unos a los otros. Y no es que les esté escribiendo un mandamiento nuevo sino el que hemos tenido desde el principio.

6 En esto consiste el amor: en que pongamos en práctica sus mandamientos. Y este es el mandamiento: que vivan en este amor, tal como ustedes lo han escuchado desde el principio.

Footnotes

• [a]. "ustedes" . Lit. "tus hijos" .