📖WEB · 2 John 1:5
What does 2 John 1:5 mean?
"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."
— 2 John 1:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
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.
I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
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.
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.
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.
Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
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