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The elder to the elect lady, and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
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For the truth's sake which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
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Grace be with you, mercy, [and] peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
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I rejoiced greatly, that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
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And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
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And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, that as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
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For many deceivers have entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver, and an antichrist.
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Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
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Whoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.