| 1:1 |
The Elderelder: To the elect lady and her children:, whom I love all of you in the truth — and not only I, but also all who have come to know the truth — |
| 1:4 |
I was very glad to find some of your children walking in the truth, in keeping with a command we have received from the Father. |
| 1:5 |
So now I urgeask you, dear lady — not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning — that we love one another. |
| 1:6 |
AndThis this is love: that we walk according to Hishis commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: that you must walk in love. |
| 1:8 |
Watch yourselves so that you don’t lose what we have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward. |
| 1:9 |
Anyone who does not remain in Christ’s teaching but goes beyond it, does not have God. The one who remains in that teaching, this one has both the Father and the Son. |
| 1:10 |
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home, and don’tdo say,not “Welcome,”greet to him; |
| 1:11 |
for the one who says,greets “Welcome,” to him shares in his evil works. |
| 1:12 |
Though I have many things to write to you, I don’t want to douse so with paper and ink. Instead, I hope to become withto you and talk face to face so that our joy may be complete. |