2 John 1:8

Take care that you do not lose the fruit of all our work; rather, reap the benefit of it in full.

Twentieth Century New Testament

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 impostors have left us to go into the world — men who do not acknowledge Jesus as Christ come in our human nature. It is that which marks a man as an impostor and an anti-Christ.

9Every one who goes beyond the limits of the Teaching of the Christ has failed to find God; the man who keeps to that Teaching — he has found 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, that you may 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 Immortal Life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together.

1 Corinthians 3:14If any man’s work, which he has built upon that foundation, still remains, he 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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