; TITLE: God’s Living Word (1996)
; ABBREVIATION: GLW
; HAS ITALICS
; HAS FOOTNOTES
; HAS REDLETTER

$$ JN2 1:1
¶ The Elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I sincerely love in truth - and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth -

$$ JN2 1:2
because of the truth which lives in us and will be with us forever:

$$ JN2 1:3
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and sincere love.

$$ JN2 1:4
¶ I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have been commanded to do by the Father.

$$ JN2 1:5
Now I ask you, dear lady, not as writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we sincerely love one another.

$$ JN2 1:6
This is sincere love: that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

$$ JN2 1:7
For many deceivers have gone out into the world - those who don’t acknowledge that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Such a one is a deceiver and an antichrist.

$$ JN2 1:8
Watch yourselves, that you might not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may get a full reward.

$$ JN2 1:9
Anyone who doesn’t live in the teaching of Christ, but runs away from it, doesn’t have God. One who lives in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

$$ JN2 1:10
If anyone comes to you and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t welcome or receive that person into your house,

$$ JN2 1:11
for the one who welcomes such a person participates in that person’s evil deeds.

$$ JN2 1:12
¶ Since I have so many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

$$ JN2 1:13
The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.