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I rejoice greatly that I have found [certain] of thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

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And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

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For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

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Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

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Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

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If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into [your] house, and give him no greeting:

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for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.