Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
The children [i.e., members] of your chosen sister [church] send you their greetings. [See verse 1].
New American Standard Bible
The children of your
King James Version
The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
Holman Bible
The children of your elect sister send you greetings.
International Standard Version
The children of your chosen sister greet you.
A Conservative Version
The children of thy chosen sister salute thee. Truly.
American Standard Version
The children of thine elect sister salute thee.
Amplified
The children of your elect (chosen) sister greet you.
Anderson New Testament
The children of your elect sister greet you.
Bible in Basic English
The children of your noble sister, who is of God's selection, send you their love.
Common New Testament
The children of your chosen sister greet you.
Daniel Mace New Testament
The children of your sister ECLECTA salute you. AMEN.
Darby Translation
The children of thine elect sister greet thee.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
The children of your beloved sister, salute you.
Godbey New Testament
The children of thy elect sister salute thee.
Goodspeed New Testament
The children of your chosen sister wish to be remembered to you.
John Wesley New Testament
The children of thy elect sister salute thee. Amen.
Julia Smith Translation
The children of thy chosen sister greet thee. Amen.
King James 2000
The children of your elect sister greet you. Amen.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The children of your elect sister greet you.
Modern King James verseion
The children of your elect sister greet you. Amen.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sons of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen. {Here ends the Second General Epistle of John}
Moffatt New Testament
The children of your elect Sister greet you.
Montgomery New Testament
The children of your elect sister send you greeting.
NET Bible
The children of your elect sister greet you.
New Heart English Bible
The children of your chosen sister greet you.
Noyes New Testament
The children of thy elect sister salute thee.
Sawyer New Testament
The children of your elect sister salute you.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
The children of thy elect sister salute thee. Amen.
Twentieth Century New Testament
The children of your eminent sister send you their greetings.
Webster
The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
Weymouth New Testament
The children of your elect sister send greetings to you.
Williams New Testament
The children of your chosen sister wish to be remembered to you.
World English Bible
The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.
Worrell New Testament
The children of your elect sister salute you.
Worsley New Testament
The children of thy elect sister salute thee. Amen.
Youngs Literal Translation
salute thee do the children of thy choice sister. Amen.
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 John 1:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Farewell
12 I have many [more] things to write to you about, but will not do so with paper and ink, since I hope to visit you [soon] and speak to you in person, so that our joy may be complete. 13 The children [i.e., members] of your chosen sister [church] send you their greetings. [See verse 1]. 1 [This is being written by] the elder to my dear [friend] Gaius, whom I love in the truth. [Note: This may mean "whom I truly love"].
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Names
Cross References
2 John 1:1-13
[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.
1 Peter 5:13
Your sister [church] here in Babylon, [also] chosen [by God], as you have been, sends her greetings along with my [spiritual] son Mark.