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

I was very glad[a] because I found some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us[b].

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And now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but one that we have had from the beginning), that we should love one another.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 John 1:4 Literally “I rejoiced exceedingly”
  2. 2 John 1:4 Literally “we received commandment from the Father”

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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