Grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, with [a]truth and love.

[b]I rejoiced greatly, that I found of thy children walking in [c]truth, as we have received a commandment of the Father.

And now beseech I thee, Lady, (not as writing a new commandment unto thee, but the same which we had from the beginning) that we (A)love one another.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 John 1:3 With true knowledge, which hath always love joined with it, and following it.
  2. 2 John 1:4 This true profession consisteth both in love one toward another which the Lord hath commanded, and also especially in wholesome and sound doctrine, which also is delivered unto us: for the commandment of God is a sound and sure foundation both of the rule of manners and of doctrine, and these cannot be separated the one from the other.
  3. 2 John 1:4 According as the truth directeth them.

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