Parallel Verses
King James Version
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
New American Standard Bible
Holman Bible
The Elder:
To the elect
International Standard Version
From:aThe Elder To: The chosen lady and her children, whom I genuinely love, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
A Conservative Version
The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who know the truth,
American Standard Version
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;
Amplified
The elder [of the church addresses this letter] to the elect (chosen)
An Understandable Version
[This is being written by] the elder to the lady chosen [by God], and to her children [Note: The terms "lady" and "children" here refer to a congregation and the Christians who belong to it. See I Peter 5:13; II John 13], whom I love in the truth. [Note: Perhaps this phrase means "whom I truly love"]. And I am not the only one [to love you], but all those [other congregations] who know the truth [of God], also love you.
Anderson New Testament
THE elder to the elect lady, and to her children, whom I love in the truth: and not I only, but also all who know the truth;
Bible in Basic English
I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;
Common New Testament
The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth,
Daniel Mace New Testament
The PRESBYTER to the lady ECLECTA and her children, whom I sincerely love, and not only I, but all true christians,
Darby Translation
The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only but also all who have known the truth,
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
The elder, to Electa Cyria, and her children, whom I love sincerely; and not I only, but also all who have known the truth;
Godbey New Testament
The elder to the elect Cyria, and to her children, whom in truth I love with divine love; and not I, but also those having known the truth;
Goodspeed New Testament
The Elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I truly love??nd not only I but all who know the truth??2 because of the truth that stays in our hearts and will be with us forever;
John Wesley New Testament
The elder unto the elect Kuria and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not I only, but likewise all who know the truth, For the truth's sake,
Julia Smith Translation
The elder to the chosen mistress in truth; (and not I only, but also all and to her children, whom I love they having known the truth;)
King James 2000
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
Lexham Expanded Bible
The elder, to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth--and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth--
Modern King James verseion
The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The elder, to the elect lady and her children which I love in the truth: And not I only, but also all that have known the truth,
Moffatt New Testament
The presbyter, to the elect Lady and her children whom I love in the Truth (and not only I but all who know the Truth)
Montgomery New Testament
The Elder to the Elect Lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have come to know the truth.
NET Bible
From the elder, to an elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth (and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth),
New Heart English Bible
The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;
Noyes New Testament
The elder to the elect Cyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all that know the truth,
Sawyer New Testament
THE elder to the elect Curia and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only but also all who have known the truth,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
THE presbyter to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all who have known the truth:
Twentieth Century New Testament
To an eminent Christian Lady, and to her Children, from the Officer of the Church. I sincerely love you all, and not I only, but also all those who have learned to know the Truth.
Webster
The elder to the elect lady, and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
Weymouth New Testament
The Elder to the elect lady and her children. Truly I love you all, and not I alone, but also all who know the truth,
Williams New Testament
The Elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I truly love, and not only I but all who know the truth,
World English Bible
The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;
Worrell New Testament
The elder to an elect lady and her children whom I love in truth??nd not I only, but also all who know the truth??2 for the truth's sake which abides in us, and will be with us forever:
Worsley New Testament
The elder unto the excellent Lady, and her children, whom I love in truth: and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
Youngs Literal Translation
The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,
Themes
Elder » In the Christian church
John » The apostle » Writes to the congregations » See the epistles of john
Topics
Interlinear
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 John 1:1
Images 2 John 1:1
Prayers for 2 John 1:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cross References
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
1 Timothy 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1 Peter 5:1
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Galatians 2:5
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
2 John 1:5
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2 John 1:13-15
The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
Luke 1:3
It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Galatians 5:7
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
Ephesians 1:4-5
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Colossians 1:5
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
1 Thessalonians 1:3-4
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
1 Peter 1:2
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
1 Peter 1:22-23
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1 John 2:21
I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
2 John 1:2-3
For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.