* BOOK63 2JOHN
= CHAPTER 1 
# 1 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;
# 2 FOR THE TRUTHS SAKE, WHICH DWELLETH IN US, AND SHALL BE WITH US FOR EVER.
# 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 OF THY CHILDREN WALKING IN TRUTH, AS WE
 HAVE RECEIVED A COMMANDMENT FROM THE FATHER.
# 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.
# 6 AND THIS IS LOVE, THAT WE WALK AFTER HIS COMMANDMENTS. THIS IS THE
 COMMANDMENT, THAT, AS YE HAVE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING, YE SHOULD WALK IN IT.
# 7 FOR MANY DECEIVERS ARE ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, WHO CONFESS NOT THAT JESUS
 CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH. THIS IS A DECEIVER AND AN ANTICHRIST.
# 8 LOOK TO YOURSELVES, THAT WE LOSE NOT THOSE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE WROUGHT,
 BUT THAT WE RECEIVE A FULL REWARD.
# 9 WHOSOEVER TRANSGRESSETH, AND ABIDETH NOT IN THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST, HATH
 NOT GOD. HE THAT ABIDETH IN THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST, HE HATH BOTH THE FATHER
 AND THE SON.
# 10 IF THERE COME ANY UNTO YOU, AND BRING NOT THIS DOCTRINE, RECEIVE HIM NOT
 INTO YOUR HOUSE, NEITHER BID HIM GOD SPEED:
# 11 FOR HE THAT BIDDETH HIM GOD SPEED IS PARTAKER OF HIS EVIL DEEDS.
# 12 HAVING MANY THINGS TO WRITE UNTO YOU, I WOULD NOT WRITE WITH PAPER AND
 INK: BUT I TRUST TO COME UNTO YOU, AND SPEAK FACE TO FACE, THAT OUR JOY MAY
 BE FULL.
# 13 THE CHILDREN OF THY ELECT SISTER GREET THEE. AMEN.