New American Standard Bible 2020

2 John 1:3-11

3 1Grace, 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 2I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received a commandment to do from the Father. 5Now I ask you, lady, 3not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had 4from the beginning, that we 5love one another. 6And 6this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, 7just as you have heard 8from the beginning, that you are to walk in it.

7For 9many deceivers have 10gone out into the world, those who 11do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is 12the deceiver and the 13antichrist. 8 14Watch yourselves, 15that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. 9 16Anyone who 17goes too far and 18does not remain in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, 19do not receive him into your house, and do not 20give him a greeting; 11for the one who 21gives him a greeting 22 23participates in his evil deeds.

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Notes

1. 2 John 1:3 Rom 1:7; 1 Tim 1:2 ↩
2. 2 John 1:4 3 John 3f ↩
3. 2 John 1:5 1 John 2:7 ↩
4. 2 John 1:5 1 John 2:7 ↩
5. 2 John 1:5 John 13:34, 35; 15:12, 17; 1 John 3:11; 4:7, 11 ↩
6. 2 John 1:6 1 John 2:5; 5:3 ↩
7. 2 John 1:6 1 John 2:24 ↩
8. 2 John 1:6 1 John 2:7 ↩
9. 2 John 1:7 1 John 2:26 ↩
10. 2 John 1:7 1 John 2:19; 4:1 ↩
11. 2 John 1:7 1 John 4:2f ↩
12. 2 John 1:7 1 John 2:26 ↩
13. 2 John 1:7 1 John 2:18 ↩
14. 2 John 1:8 Mark 13:9 ↩
15. 2 John 1:8 1 Cor 3:8; Heb 10:35 ↩
16. 2 John 1:9 Lit Everyone ↩
17. 2 John 1:9 Lit goes on ahead ↩
18. 2 John 1:9 John 7:16; 8:31; 1 John 2:23 ↩
19. 2 John 1:10 1 Kin 13:16f; Rom 16:17; 2 Thess 3:6, 14; Titus 3:10 ↩
20. 2 John 1:10 Lit say to him ↩
21. 2 John 1:11 Lit says to him ↩
22. 2 John 1:11 I.e., shares responsibility for them ↩
23. 2 John 1:11 Eph 5:11; 1 Tim 5:22; Jude 23 ↩

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