4 I was so happy that I found some of your children living out the truth as per the command that the father gave us. 5 So now I’m requesting you, lady, (not making some new command, but one that we’ve had since the beginning) that we all need to love each other[ref] 6 where the definition of love is obeying God’s commands. This is the command about walking in love that you all heard from the beginning 7 because many false preachers have entered the world who don’t believe that Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) is the messiah who came as a human. Any person like that is a deceiver and against the messiah.

8 So make sure that you all don’t lose what you’ve worked for, but rather go on to receive a full reward.

9 Anyone who doesn’t stay with the messiah’s teaching or adds more to it doesn’t have God—it’s the person who continues in the teaching that has both the father and the son with them. 10 If anyone comes to you all and doesn’t bring this same message, don’t accept that person into your house, and don’t tell them that it’s good 11 because anyone who encourages those people is participating in the evil that they’re spreading.