It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth,(A) 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.(B) I ask that we love one another. And this is love:(C) that we walk in obedience to his commands.(D) As you have heard from the beginning,(E) his command is that you walk in love.

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Truth and Deception

I was very glad to find some of your children walking in the truth,(A) in keeping with a command we have received from the Father. So now I urge 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.(B) And this is love:(C) that we walk according to His commands.(D) This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 John 1:6 Lit in it

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

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

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