2 John 1:10

If anyone comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine, do not be willing to receive him into the house, and do not speak a greeting to him.

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In The King James Version

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

In Context

9Everyone who withdraws and does not remain in the doctrine of Christ, does not have God. Whoever remains in the doctrine, such a one as this has both the Father and the Son.

11For whoever speaks a greeting to him, is speaking with his evil works.

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Cross References

Psalms 129:8And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

1 Corinthians 5:11But now I have written to you: do not associate with anyone who is called a brother and yet is a fornicator, or greedy, or a servant of idolatry, or a slanderer, or inebriated, or a robber. With such a one as this, do not even take food.

Galatians 1:8But if anyone, even we ourselves or an Angel from Heaven, were to preach to you a gospel other than the one that we have preached to you, let him be anathema.

2 Thessalonians 3:14But if anyone does not obey our word by this epistle, take note of him and do not keep company with him, so that he may be ashamed.

Titus 3:10Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction,

Matthew Henry on 2 John 1:8-10

Deceivers Condemned. ( a. d. 90.) 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. In this principal part of the epistle we find, I. The ill news… Read the whole commentary →

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