2 John 5-7

5And now I ask you, dear ladyanot as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginningbthat we love one another. 6And cthis is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just das you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. 7For emany deceivers fhave gone out into the world, gthose who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.

2 John 9

9Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, hdoes not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching ihas both the Father and the Son.

3 John 11-12

11Beloved, jdo not imitate evil but imitate good. kWhoever does good is from God; lwhoever does evil has not seen God. 12Demetrius mhas received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and nyou know that our testimony is true.

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