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I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

5 

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

7 

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

8 

Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

9 

Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

10 

If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,

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for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.