2 John 1:4-11 - Truth And Deception

⁴ I was overjoyed to find some of your children leading the true Life, as we were commanded to do by the Father. ⁵ And now I entreat you, Lady ??not as though I were writing you any new command, it is the command which we have had from the very beginning ??let us love one another. ⁶ To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.

⁷ I say this, because a number of impostors have emerged in the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; that marks the real 'impostor' and 'antichrist.' ⁸ Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward. ⁹ Anyone who is 'advanced' and will not remain by the doctrine of Christ, does not possess God: he who remains by the doctrine of Christ possesses both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not admit him to the house ??do not even greet him, ¹¹ for he who greets him shares in his wicked work.