2 John 1:6

And this is the love that we shulde walke after his commaundementes. This commaundement is (that as ye have hearde from the begynninge) ye shuld walke in it.

Tyndale New Testament

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 nowe beseche I the lady not as though I wrote a newe commaundement vnto the but that same which we had from the begynninge that we shuld love one another.

7For many deceavers are entred in to the worlde which confesse not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesshe. This is a deceaver and an Antichrist.

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Cross References

John 14:21He that hath my commaundementes and kepeth them the same is he that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my father: and I will love him and will shewe myne awne selfe vnto him.

John 15:14Ye are my fredes yf ye do whatsoever I commaunde you.

Galatians 5:13Brethren ye were called in to (libertie) only let not youre libertie be an occasion vnto the flesshe but in love serve one another.

1 John 2:24Let therfore abyde in you that same which ye hearde from the begynnynge. Yf that which ye hearde from the begynnynge shall remayne in you ye also shall continewe in the sonne and in the father

1 John 5:15And yf we knowe that he heare vs what soever we axe we knowe that we shall have the peticions that we desyre of 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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