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Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from[a] Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, in truth and love.

Keep on Walking According to God’s Word

I was overjoyed to find out that some of your children are walking in the truth, in keeping with the command we received from the Father. And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing a new command to you, but the one we have had from the beginning—let us love one another.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 John 1:3 Some witnesses to the text add the Lord. (“Witnesses to the text” mentioned in footnotes may include Greek manuscripts, lectionaries, translations, and quotations in the church fathers.)

Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ,(A) the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.

It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth,(B) just as the Father commanded us. And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning.(C) I ask that we love one another.

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