Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 John 5 in context
2 John 2–8
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for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
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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 love.
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I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
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Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
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This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
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For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
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Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
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