Parallel Verses
King James 2000
I rejoiced greatly that I found some of your children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
Holman Bible
I was very glad to find some of your children walking in the truth,
International Standard Version
I was overjoyed to find some of your children living truthfully, just as the Father has commanded us.
A Conservative Version
I rejoice exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father.
American Standard Version
I rejoice greatly that I have found certain of thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.
Amplified
I was greatly delighted to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
An Understandable Version
I was very happy when I learned that some of your children [i.e., members of the congregation] are living in [harmony with the] truth, just as we have been commanded to do by the Father.
Anderson New Testament
I rejoiced greatly because I found some of your children walking in the truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
Bible in Basic English
It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.
Common New Testament
I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
Daniel Mace New Testament
It was a great satisfaction to me, to see the conduct of your children, was so agreeable to the directions, we received from the father.
Darby Translation
I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
I rejoiced greatly, when I found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
Godbey New Testament
I rejoice exceedingly because I have found some of thy children walking about in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
Goodspeed New Testament
It makes me exceedingly happy to find that some of your children are guided by truth, just as we have been commanded to be by the Father.
John Wesley New Testament
I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in the truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
Julia Smith Translation
I was greatly rejoiced that I found of thy children walking about in the truth, as we received a command from the Father.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{I was very glad} because I found [some] of your children walking in [the] truth, just as {the Father commanded us}.
Modern King James verseion
I rejoiced greatly that I found your children walking in truth, as we have received command from the Father.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I rejoiced greatly, that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment of the father.
Moffatt New Testament
I was overjoyed to find some of your children leading the true Life, as we were commanded to do by the Father.
Montgomery New Testament
I am greatly rejoiced to find some of your children leading their lives in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.
NET Bible
I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.
New Heart English Bible
I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
Noyes New Testament
I rejoiced greatly, that I found some of thy children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
Sawyer New Testament
I rejoiced exceedingly that I found your children walking in the truth as we received commandment from the Father.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
I rejoiced greatly that I found thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.
Twentieth Century New Testament
It was a great joy to me to find the lives of some of your children guided by the Truth, in obedience to the command that we received from the Father.
Webster
I rejoiced greatly, that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
Weymouth New Testament
It is an intense joy to me to have found some of your children living true Christian lives, in obedience to the command which we have received from the Father.
Williams New Testament
I am happy to find that some of your children are living by the truth, just as we had been commanded from the Father to do.
World English Bible
I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
Worrell New Testament
I rejoiced exceedingly, because I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.
Worsley New Testament
I rejoiced greatly that I found among thy children such as walked in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
Youngs Literal Translation
I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Truth And Deception
3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 4 I rejoiced greatly that I found some of your children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. 5 And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Cross References
3 John 1:3-4
For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, even as you walk in the truth.
Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall stumble in them.
Malachi 2:6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
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 you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling fragrance.
Philippians 4:10
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again; in which you were also concerned, but you lacked opportunity.
1 Thessalonians 2:19-20
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
1 Thessalonians 3:6-10
But now when Timothy came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
1 John 1:6-7
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1 John 2:6
He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.