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.

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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