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2 John 1:6

This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it. 1 Beware of Antichrist Deceivers

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5And now I ask you, lady, not as writing a new commandment to you, but one which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another.

7Because many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

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Cross References

John 14:21He that has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him.”

John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Galatians 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only do not use freedom for an opportunity for the flesh, but rather through love serve one another.

1 John 2:24Therefore let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 5:15And if we know that He hears us, whatever we may ask, we know that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.

Matthew Henry on 2 John 1:6-7

Christian Love. ( a. d. 90.) 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. We come now more into the design and substance of the epistle; and here we have, I. The apostle's request: Now, I beseech thee, lady. Considering what it is that he entreats, the way of… Read the whole commentary →

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