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;

because of the truth that lives on in our hearts and will be with us forever:

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Watch yourselves, that you do not lose the things which we have accomplished, but that you receive a full reward.

Every one that transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, this man holdeth both the Father and the Son.

he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If any come to you, and bring not this doctrine,

He that biddeth him welcome, takes part in his wicked works.

Having many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.