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title: 2 John 1
slug: kjv-nt/2-john-1
createdAt: 2024-09-11T00:41:07.320Z
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**1 **The elder unto 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; **2 **For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. **3 **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.

**4 **I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. **5 **And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. **6 **And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

**7 **For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. **8 **Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. **9 **Whosoever 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. **10 **If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into *your* house, neither bid him God speed: **11 **For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

**12 **Having many things to write unto you, I would not *write* with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

**13 **The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.