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