2 John 1:8

Take care so that you do not lose what we have worked for but instead receive your full reward.

Open English Bible (UK)

In The King James Version

Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

In Context

7I say this because many deceivers have gone out into the world – men who do not acknowledge that Jesus Christ came in flesh and blood. Any such person is a deceiver and antichrist.

9Anyone who goes beyond and fails to live inside of the teaching of Christ does not have God. The person who lives inside that teaching – they have both the Father and the Son.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:24for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will display great signs and marvels, so that, were it possible, even God’s people would be led astray.

Mark 13:9‘See to yourselves! They will betray you to courts of law; and you will be taken to synagogues and beaten; and you will be brought up before governors and kings for my sake, so that you can bear witness before them.

Luke 19:19So the master said to him “And you I appoint over five towns.”

John 4:36Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for eternal life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together.

1 Corinthians 3:14If anyone’s work, which they have built on that foundation, still remains, they will gain a reward.

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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