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. And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

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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”