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{\MTB THE SECOND EPISTLE OF

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\par }\OneChap {\PP \VerseOne{1}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;

\VS{2}for the truth’s sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever:

\VS{3}Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.


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{\PP \VS{4}I rejoice greatly that I have found
{\ADD{certain}} of thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

\VS{5}And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

\VS{6}And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

\VS{7}For many deceivers are gone forth into the world,
{\ADD{even}} they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

\VS{8}Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

\VS{9}Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

\VS{10}If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into
{\ADD{your}} house, and give him no greeting:

\VS{11}for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.


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{\PP \VS{12}Having many things to write unto you, I would not
{\ADD{write them}} with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy may be made full.

\VS{13}The children of thine elect sister salute thee.


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