3 John Cross References - Riverside

¹ THE Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth: ² Beloved, I pray that in everything you may prosper and be in health, just as your soul now prospers. ³ For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified to your truth — that you are living in the truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living in the truth. ⁵ Beloved, you do faithfully whatever work you do for the brethren, even when they are strangers, ⁶ and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to help them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God. ⁷ For it was for the Name that they came out, taking nothing from the Gentiles. ⁸ We ought to help such men so as to be fellow workers with the truth. ⁹ I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who desires to be first among them, does not receive us. ¹⁰ Therefore, if I come I will bring to mind the works that he is doing, accusing us with wicked words, and not satisfied with that, neither does he receive the brethren, and he hinders those who wish to do so and expels them from the church. ¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate evil, but good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil has not seen God. ¹² Testimony has been borne to Demetrius by all and by the truth itself. We too bear testimony, and you know that our testimony is true. ¹³ I had much to write to you, but I will not write to you with ink and pen. ¹⁴ But I hope to see you shortly, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends send greetings to you. Greet the friends by name.

¹⁴ If any one does not receive you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city shake off the dust of your feet.

⁴⁰ He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him that sent me.

⁴⁰ He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him that sent me. ⁴¹ He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will get a prophet's reward, and he who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will get a righteous man's reward. ⁴² Whoever gives merely a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple, I tell you truly he will not lose his reward."

²⁰ Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing down to him and making a request of him. ²¹ He said to her, "What do you wish?" She said to him, "Give the command for these two sons of mine to sit one on your right and one on your left in your kingdom." ²² Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, 'We can?' ²³ He said to them, "My cup you will drink, but seats on my right and on my left are not mine to give. They will be given to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father." ²⁴ When the ten heard of this, they were indignant at the two brothers. ²⁵ But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their great ones wield power over them. ²⁶ It is not so among you. But whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant, ²⁷ and whoever wants to be first among you will be your slave; ²⁸ just as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."

⁴ They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. ⁵ All their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and make their tassels large. ⁶ They love the best couches at dinners and the front seats in the synagogues ⁷ and salutations in the markets and to be called by men Rabbi. ⁸ But do not you be called Rabbi. For one is your Teacher and all of you are brothers.

⁴⁵ Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant whom the master has placed over his household to give them food in due season?

²¹ His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will place you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.' ²² The man who had received the two talents came and said, 'Master, you committed to me two talents; see, I have gained two talents more.' ²³ His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over a few things, I will place you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.'

³⁴ They were silent, for on the road they had disputed among themselves which was the greatest.

³⁷ "Whoever receives one of such little children in my name receives me; and whoever receives me receives not me, but him who sent me."

³⁵ James and John the sons of Zebedee came to him and said, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask you." ³⁶ He said, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³⁷ They said, "Grant that one of us may sit on your right hand and the other on your left hand in your glory." ³⁸ Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" ³⁹ They said to him, "We can." Jesus said, "The cup that I drink you will drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; ⁴⁰ but to sit on my right or my left is not mine to give, but it will be for those for whom it has been prepared." ⁴¹ When the ten heard about this, they became indignant at James and John. ⁴² Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that those who are thought to rule the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. ⁴³ It is not so among you. But whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, ⁴⁴ and whoever of you wishes to be first shall be the slave of all. ⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many."

²² "Blessed are you when men hate you and when they shut you out and reproach you and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of Man!

⁴⁸ Then he said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me welcomes him who sent me. For he who is least among you all, he is great."

⁷ and he from within answers, 'Do not trouble me; the door is locked, and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.'

⁴² The Master said, "Who then is the faithful, the wise, manager whom the master will appoint over his establishment to give out rations at the proper time?

¹⁰ He who is faithful in the least is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest in the least is also dishonest in much. ¹¹ If, then, you have not been faithful in the dishonest Mammon, who will entrust to you the true? ¹² And if you were not faithful in what was another's, who will give you what is your own?

²⁴ There was also a dispute among them as to which of them should be regarded as superior. ²⁵ He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those of them who exercise authority are called benefactors. ²⁶ But you are not to be so. The greatest among you is to be like the youngest and the leader like him who serves. ²⁷ For which is superior, he who reclines at table or he who serves? Is not he who reclines? But I am in the midst of you as the one who serves.

²⁰ Every one who is doing base things hates the Light and does not come to the Light, that his deeds may not be reproved.

²² His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed that if any one confessed Jesus as the Christ, he should be cast out of the synagogue.

³⁴ They answered him, "You were born in sin — wholly; and are you teaching us?" and they cast him out. ³⁵ Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and found him and said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

³ The gate-keeper opens to him and the sheep listen to his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice and I know them and they follow me,

²⁶ If any one is serving me, let him follow me and where I am there my servant shall be. If any one is serving me, him my Father will honor.

³⁵ Jesus said to them, "A little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, that darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so as to become sons of Light." Jesus said these things and then went away and hid himself from them.

³⁵ He who saw it has borne witness and his witness is true, and he knows that he speaks the truth in order that you may believe.

²⁴ This is the disciple who witnesses to these things and who wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

⁴¹ but they went away from before the Council rejoicing because they were thought worthy to be put to shame for the Name.

⁴ Those who were scattered went to various places telling the good news.

¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."

²² They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to your words."

³ So they were sent on by the church and passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles, which caused great joy to all the brethren.

²⁹ to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from strangled things, and from unchastity. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farewell."

²⁹ The city was filled with confusion, and the people rushed with one mind into the theater, having gotten hold of Gaius and Aristarchus, fellow travelers of Paul's.

⁴ There were in company with him Sopater of Beraea, the son of Pyrrhus, and of the Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe and Timothy, and from Asia Tychicus and Trophimus.

⁵ But when we had finished the days, we left and continued our journey, and they all with their wives and children escorted us until we got outside of the city. Then, after kneeling down on the beach and praying,

¹² "Then a man named Ananias, a strict observer of the Law and highly esteemed by all the Jews who lived there,

⁸ First of all I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is spoken of through all the world. ⁹ For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

¹⁰ Have brotherly love toward one another like family affection, in honor preferring one another,

²⁴ while making a journey to Spain, I hope to see you as I pass through and to be furthered on my journey by you, after first partially satisfying my desire of being with you.

¹ I COMMEND to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchreae, ² that you may receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the holy, and help her in any matter in which she may need you. For she has been a provider for many, myself included. ³ Give my greetings to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, ⁴ who for my life risked their own necks, to whom not I alone give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. ⁵ Give my greetings also to the church in their house. Give my greetings to Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Asia for Christ. ⁶ Give my greetings to Mary, who has worked hard for you. ⁷ Give my greetings to Andronicus and Junias, men of my race and my companions in prison, who are eminent among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. ⁸ Give my greetings to Ampliatus my beloved in the Lord. ⁹ Give my greetings to Urbanus our fellow worker in Christ, and to Stachys my beloved. ¹⁰ Give my greetings to Apelles, that tested man in Christ. Give my greetings to the household of Aristobulus. ¹¹ Give my greetings to Herodion, who is of my race. Give my greetings to those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord. ¹² Give my greetings to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, those workers in the Lord. Give my greetings to Persis the beloved, who has worked hard in the Lord. ¹³ Give my greetings to Rufus the chosen in the Lord, and to his mother and mine. ¹⁴ Give my greetings to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Petrobas, Hermas, and the brethren with them. ¹⁵ Give my greetings to Philologus, and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the holy with them. ¹⁶ Give my greetings to one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send their greetings to you.

²³ Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, sends his greetings. Erastus the city treasurer sends his greetings, and so does Quartus the brother.

¹⁴ I am thankful that I baptized no one of you except Crispus and Gaius,

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to faith, as the Lord granted to each of us. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow. ⁷ So then neither is he who planted anything nor he who watered, but God who makes the seed grow. ⁸ Each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ We are God's fellow workers: you are God's farm God's building.

¹⁴ I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children. ¹⁵ For if you have ten thousand teachers in Christ, still you have not many fathers. For I was your father in Christ Jesus through the good news. ¹⁶ So I beg you to be imitators of me.

¹ IT is generally reported that there is unchastity among you, and such unchastity as is not even among the Gentiles, so that a man has his father's wife! ² And you are puffed up with pride and have not rather grieved and taken steps to expel from among you the doer of this deed! ³ For I, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already as if I were present judged the man who has acted thus. ⁴ When you assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit was also present with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ I decided to deliver over such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

¹² If others share this right over you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right. No, we endure all things in order not to cause any hindrance to the good news of Christ. ¹³ Do you not know that those who do the work of the Temple eat the things that come from the Temple, and those who minister at the altar share with the altar? ¹⁴ So the Lord has directed that those who proclaim the good news shall have their living from the good news. ¹⁵ But I have used none of these rights and I am not writing this in order that it may be done in my case. For it would be better for me to die — No one shall make my boast an empty one!

¹⁸ What then is my reward? That in telling the good news I make the good news free, and do not take full advantage of my rights in the good news.

¹ IMITATE me as I imitate Christ.

¹⁰ If Timothy comes, see to it that he becomes free from fear in his relations to you. For he is doing the Lord's work, just as I am. ¹¹ So let no one think him of no account. Send him forward in peace on his journey to me, for I am expecting him with the brethren.

¹⁶ by my visiting you on the way to Macedonia and again coming back from Macedonia to you and being sped by you on my way toward Juda.

¹ THEREFORE, having this service through God's mercy, we are not downhearted, ² but we have renounced shameful secret things, not living in craftiness nor adulterating God's message, but by the openness of truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. ³ If our good news is veiled, it is veiled to those who are going to ruin,

⁵ For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

¹ AS God's fellow workers we also beg you not to receive his grace fruitlessly.

² Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one; we have injured no one; we have taken advantage of no one. ³ I am not saying this to condemn you, for I have already said that you have such a place in our hearts that we are ready to die with you or to live with you.

⁶ But God, who encourages the depressed, encouraged us by the coming of Titus, ⁷ and not by his coming only, but also by the encouragement by which he was encouraged about you. He told us of your longing for me, your lamentation, your zeal in my behalf, so that I rejoice the more.

²³ If any one asks about Titus, he is my intimate friend and fellow worker for you. If it is our brethren, they are the messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.

¹ I MYSELF, Paul, beg you by the gentleness and sweet reasonableness of Christ — I who "to your face am humble when among you, but when absent am bold toward you" — ² I pray that I may not when present have to be bold with the confidence with which I expect to show my courage against some who think of us as living according to the flesh. ³ For although living in the flesh we do not carry on our warfare according to the flesh, ⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but powerful under God for the destruction of fortresses. ⁵ We overthrow reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought into obedience to Christ ⁶ and are ready to take vengeance upon every disobedience when your obedience is complete. ⁷ Look at what is right before your eyes. If any one is confident that he belongs to Christ, let him again consider this regarding himself, that just as he belongs to Christ so also do we. ⁸ For if I boast somewhat excessively of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for pulling you down, I shall not be ashamed. ⁹ Let me not seem as if meaning to frighten you by letters. ¹⁰ Because, "His letters," they say, "are mighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak and his speaking amounts to nothing." ¹¹ Let such a person consider this, that what we are in words by letters when absent such we will be in deeds when present.

⁷ Did I commit a sin when I humbled myself that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed to you the good news of God without pay? ⁸ I robbed other churches by taking wages for serving you, ⁹ and when I was with you and in need I was not a burden to any one, for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my need. In every way I kept myself from being a burden to you, and shall keep myself so.

¹³ What is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the churches except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

² Those who have been long sinning and all the rest I have forewarned and now forewarn, when I was present with you the second time and now when absent, that if I come again I shall not spare;

¹⁴ But when I saw that they were not walking straight according to the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you who are a Jew are living like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

¹⁹ my children, for whom I again am suffering birth pangs until Christ is formed in you.

¹⁶ I say, walk in the Spirit and you will not carry out the passions of the flesh.

¹⁰ So then as we have opportunity let us work for the good of all men, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.

¹⁵ For this reason I also, since hearing of your faith in Jesus and your love to all the saints, ¹⁶ never cease giving thanks for you when I mention you in my prayers,

¹ BE imitators of God as beloved children

²³ Peace to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

⁴ always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy

³ doing nothing in a partisan or vainglorious way, but each modestly regarding the others as of more account than himself. ⁴ Do not be each intent on his own interests, but also on the interests of others.

⁴ Do not be each intent on his own interests, but also on the interests of others. ⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

²⁷ Indeed he was sick and near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

¹⁷ Unite in imitating me, brethren, and watch those who are living according to our example.

³ Yes, I ask you, true yokefellow, help them, since they struggled in spreading the good news along with me and Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.

¹⁴ Yet you did nobly in sharing with me in my distress.

⁴ because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have to all the holy ⁵ because of the hope laid up for us in heaven. Of this you have already heard in the true message of the good news ⁶ which has come to you. Just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, so also it is among you since the day that you heard and learned of the grace of God in truth. ⁷ So you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ in your behalf, ⁸ and who has told us of your love in the Spirit.

¹⁰ and that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and please him in every way. May you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

¹⁷ And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

¹¹ and so does Jesus who is called Justus. These alone of those who are circumcised are my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.

³ unceasingly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before God our Father. ⁴ We know, brethren beloved by God, that he has chosen you ⁵ and that our good news came to you not in word only but in power and in the Holy Spirit and in great assurance, just as you know we acted among you for your benefit. ⁶ You became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the message in great affliction with joy which the Holy Spirit gave,

⁶ You became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the message in great affliction with joy which the Holy Spirit gave, ⁷ so that you became a pattern for all believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For the message of the Lord sounded forth from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone abroad, so that there is no need for us to speak a word. ⁹ For the people themselves are telling about us, what a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God ¹⁰ and to wait for his Son from heaven — his Son Jesus whom he raised from the dead and who is saving us from the coming wrath.

¹² to live lives worthy of the God who is calling you into his own kingdom and glory. ¹³ For this reason we unceasingly give thanks to God that when you received from us the report of the message of God you accepted it not as the message of men, but, as it truly is, the message of God, which also is doing its work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you became imitators, brethren, of the churches of God that are in Judaea in Christ Jesus, because you too suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen that they did from the Jews,

¹⁴ For you became imitators, brethren, of the churches of God that are in Judaea in Christ Jesus, because you too suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen that they did from the Jews,

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? ²⁰ You are our glory and joy.

² and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

⁶ But now that Timothy has come to us from you and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always keep us well in mind and long to see us, just as we long to see you, ⁷ we have been cheered, brethren, in regard to you, in all our straits and distresses by your faith. ⁸ Now we are living, since you are standing firm in the Lord. ⁹ For how can we be grateful enough to God for you in view of all the joy we have because of you,

¹² Thus you will live becomingly in the sight of outsiders and will have need of nothing.

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, as is fitting, since your faith is growing greatly and the love of each and all of you toward one another is increasing,

¹³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's making you holy and your own faith in the truth.

² to Timothy my true child in faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁷ He must have a good reputation with outsiders so as not to fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

² to Timothy my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁰ But you have kept track of my teaching, my course of life, my purpose, my faith, my slowness to anger, my love, my patience,

⁷ For a bishop, as God's steward, must be above reproach, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not given to blows, not eager for base gain, ⁸ but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, just, holy, temperate, ⁹ holding to the trustworthy message which is according to the teaching, so that he may be able also to encourage others by wholesome teaching and to refute opposers. ¹⁰ For there are many insubordinate persons, foolish talkers and deceivers, especially those who are of the circumcision, ¹¹ who ought to be silenced, for they are upsetting whole house-holds, teaching what they should not, merely for the sake of base gain. ¹² One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, base brutes, lazy gluttons." ¹³ This testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not giving attention to Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who are turning away from the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure. Even their minds and consciences are polluted. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their deeds they disown him. They are detestable, disobedient, and worthless for any good work.

¹³ Do your best in helping Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos forward on their journey so that they may lack nothing.

² and to Apphia, our sister, and to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the Church that meets at your house:

⁵ for I hear of the love and the loyalty that you have to the Lord Jesus Christ and to all the holy. ⁶ I pray that your fellowship in the faith may become effective in the knowledge of all the good there is in us in our relation to Christ. ⁷ For I have had great joy and encouragement in your love, because the hearts of the holy have been refreshed by you, brother.

¹⁰ I beg you in behalf of my child Onesimus, born to me in my chains,

²⁴ and Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers, send you their greetings.

¹² that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

¹² Above all things, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by the earth or by any other oath. Let your yes be yes and your no be no, that you may not fall under condemnation.

²⁰ For what credit is it if when you sin and are struck with the fist you are patient? But if though doing well, you suffer and are patient, that is grace in God's sight.

¹¹ He must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

¹³ And who is it that will harm you if you become earnest for the good?

⁸ Above all things have earnest love to one another, for love hides a host of sins.

¹⁰ Let each, as he has received a spiritual gift, serve the others in that way, as good stewards of the varied grace of God. ¹¹ If any one speaks, let it be as uttering the oracles of God. If any one serves, let it be from the strength that God supplies. Thus in all things let God be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him be glory and strength for the ages of the ages! Amen.

¹⁴ Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all in Christ.

³ Since his divine power has given us all things helpful to life and piety through the knowledge of him who has called us by his own glory and virtue, ⁴ and thereby great and precious promises have been granted to us, that through them you may escape the corruption that is in the world through passion and become sharers in the divine nature, ⁵ for this very reason make it your whole endeavor to supply to your faith virtue, and to your virtue knowledge, ⁶ and to your knowledge self-control, and to your self-control endurance, and to your endurance reverence, ⁷ and to your reverence brotherliness, and to your brotherliness love. ⁸ For when you have these in abundance they make you to be neither idle nor fruitless regarding the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But he who lacks these is blind, dim-sighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

¹⁸ but grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory now and to the day of eternity!

²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who does righteousness has been born of him.

⁶ Whoever remains in him does not sin; whoever sins has not seen him nor known him. ⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you. He who is doing righteousness is righteous as Christ is righteous. ⁸ He who is committing sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this the Son of God appeared — to undo the works of the Devil. ⁹ No one who has been born of God commits sin, for God's life-giving germ remains in him and he cannot continue sinning, because he has been born of God.

¹⁸ Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

¹ THE Elder to the chosen Lady and her children, whom I love in truth (and not I alone, but also all who have come to know the truth) ² for the sake of the truth which remains in us and will be with us forever:

² for the sake of the truth which remains in us and will be with us forever: ³ Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. ⁴ I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children living in truth, as we received command from the Father.

⁴ I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children living in truth, as we received command from the Father. ⁵ And now I pray you, Lady, not as if writing a new command for you, but one that we have had from the beginning, let us love one another. ⁶ This is love: to live by his commands. This is the command, as you heard from the beginning that you must live by it. ⁷ For many deceivers have come out into the world and they do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the Antichrist. ⁸ Guard yourselves so as not to lose what we have worked for, but so that you may gain a full reward. ⁹ Every one who goes forward and does not remain in the teaching of Christ is without God. He who remains in the teaching, he has the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If any one comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house and do not bid him welcome. ¹¹ He who bids him welcome becomes a sharer in his wicked works. ¹² I have much to write to you, but I will not do it with paper and ink. I hope to be with you soon and to speak face to face so that our joy may be complete.

¹² I have much to write to you, but I will not do it with paper and ink. I hope to be with you soon and to speak face to face so that our joy may be complete. ¹³ The children of your chosen sister send greetings to you.

³ For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified to your truth — that you are living in the truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living in the truth.

⁴ I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living in the truth. ⁵ Beloved, you do faithfully whatever work you do for the brethren, even when they are strangers,

⁵ Beloved, you do faithfully whatever work you do for the brethren, even when they are strangers, ⁶ and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to help them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God.

⁸ We ought to help such men so as to be fellow workers with the truth.

¹⁰ Therefore, if I come I will bring to mind the works that he is doing, accusing us with wicked words, and not satisfied with that, neither does he receive the brethren, and he hinders those who wish to do so and expels them from the church.

¹² Testimony has been borne to Demetrius by all and by the truth itself. We too bear testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.

³ You have endurance and you have borne for the sake of my name and you have not been discouraged.

⁹ I know your distress and poverty, but you are rich, and I know the profane words from those who say that they are Jews though they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.