2 John 1:10

If any one cometh to you, and bringeth not this doctrine, entertain him not in your house, nor say to him, Joy to thee:

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

9Every one who transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of the Messiah, God is not in him. And he who abideth in his doctrine, he hath the Father and the Son.

11for he that saith to him, Joy to thee, is a participator in his evil deeds.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:11But this is what I wrote to you, that ye commingle not, if any one is called a brother, and is a whoremonger, or avaricious, or an idol-worshipper, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, with him who is such, not even to eat bread.

Galatians 1:8But if we, or an angel from heaven, should announce to you differently from what we have announced to you, let him be accursed.

2 Thessalonians 3:14And if any one hearkeneth not to these my words in this epistle, separate that man from you, and have no intimacy with him, that he may be ashamed.

Titus 3:10An heretical man, after thou hast instructed him once and again, avoid:

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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