To the elect^a lady and her children, whom I love in the truth—and not only I, but also all who know the truth^b—²because of the truth that remains in us^c and will be with us forever.

³Grace, mercy, and peace^d will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son^e of the Father, in truth and love.^f

TRUTH AND DECEPTION

⁴I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth,^g in keeping with a command we have received from the Father. ⁵So now I ask you, dear lady—not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.^h ⁶This is love:ⁱ that we walk according to his commands.^j This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: that you walk in love.^A

⁷Many deceivers have gone out into the world; they do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh.^k This is the deceiver and the antichrist.^l ⁸Watch yourselves so that you don’t lose what we^B have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.^m ⁹Anyone who does not remain in Christ’s teachingⁿ but goes beyond it does not have God.^o The one who remains^p in that teaching, this one has both the Father^q and the Son.^r ¹⁰If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive^s him into your home, and do not greet him; ¹¹for the one who greets him shares^t in his evil works.^u

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2 John 3: Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.

Footnotes

AOr in it
BOther read you

Cross references

a Rm 16:13; 1Pt 5:13; 2Jn 13
b Jn 8:32; 14:6; 1Tm 2:4
c 1Jn 1:8
d 1Tm 1:2; 2Tm 1:2
e Heb 1:2
f 1Jn 4:12
g 3Jn 3–4
h 1Jn 3:11
i 1Jn 2:5; 5:3
j Ps 103:18; Mk 7:8; Jn 14:15,21,23; 15:10
k Php 3:3
l 1Jn 2:18,22; 4:3
m 2Pt 2:13
n Jn 8:31–32; 1Jn 2:21–23,27
o Jn 5:12; 8:41; 1Jn 2:23
p Jn 15:4–16
q Mt 11:27
r Heb 1:2; 1Jn 2:23
s Jn 1:12; 6:21; 13:20
t 1Tm 5:22
u Eph 5:11; 1Tm 5:22; Jd 23