2 John.
1.
 You all know me as the  chief Elder.  I am writing this letter to all of you MET in your congregation.  God has chosen  you, and I love you truly! Not only do I myself love you, but all those who know  and accept the true message  that Jesus taught also love you! 
All of us  believe God’s true message. It is in our ◄ inner beings/hearts► and we will continue  to believe it forever! 
God the Father and Jesus Christ, who is ◄his Son/the man who is also God►, will continue  to act kindly and mercifully  toward us because they love  us. They will enable us to have inner peace,  because we believe their true message. 
I am very happy because I learned about some of you SYN who are conducting your lives in a manner that is ◄consistent/in accordance► with  God’s true message. You are doing that just like our Father  God commanded us  to do. 
And now, dear congregation MET,  there is something that I am requesting you  to do. I am writing this not to command that you do something new, but  that you continue to do what God commanded when we first began MTY  to believe his true message. What he commanded is that we love each other. 
And  we really/truly are loving  God when we are conducting our lives in accordance with whatever he commands  us to do. What he commands us to do is to continue  to love one another. That is exactly what you heard when you first began MTY  to believe God’s true message. 
Many people who deceive  others have left your congregation and have now gone out among other people who are  in your area MTY. They are the ones who ◄do not acknowledge/refuse to say► that Jesus Christ became human. They are the very ones who deceive  people and oppose  what we teach about Christ. 
 So be sure that  you do not let those teachers deceive you! If you let them deceive you, you will lose  the reward which we,  together with you, have been working for, and you will not receive the complete reward  of being eternally united to God! 
Those who change what Christ taught and do not continue  to believe what he taught do not have  a relationship with God.  But those who continue to believe  what Christ taught have  a close relationship with both  God, our Father, and with ◄his Son/the one who is also God►. 
So when anyone comes to you who teaches something different from  what Christ taught, do not welcome him into your homes! Do not  encourage him by ◄wishing him well/greeting him as a fellow believer►  in any way! 
 I say that because if you treat people like that as you would treat a fellow believer,  God will punish you along with them for the evil that they do. 
 Even though I have much  more that I want to tell you, I have decided not  to say it in a letter MTY. Instead, I expect to be with you  soon and talk directly with you. Then we can be completely joyful  together. 
Your fellow believers here MET, ones whom  God has also chosen, ◄send their greetings to you/say that they are thinking affectionately about you►.