2 John 1:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THE ELDERLY elder [of the church addresses this letter] to the elect (chosen) lady (Cyria) and her children, whom I truly love–and not only I but also all who are [progressively] learning to recognize and know and understand the Truth–

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;

Common English Bible

¹ From the elder. To the chosen gentlewoman and her children, whom I truly love (and I am not the only one, but also all who know the truth),

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ The Elder to the Elect Lady, and those born of her, whom I love in the truth: and not I alone, but also all those who have known the truth,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ The ancient to the lady Elect, and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth,

2 John 1:1 Cross References

Luke 1:3

I, too, decided, as one having a grasp of everything from the start, to write a well-ordered account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

John 8:32

and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Acts 11:30

this they did, sending it to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

Romans 16:13

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and greet his mother—a mother to me also.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the gentiles to live like Jews?”

Galatians 2:5

we did not submit to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.

Galatians 3:1

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified!

Galatians 5:7

You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?

Colossians 1:5

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. You have heard of this hope before in the word of the truth, the gospel

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 10:26

For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins

1 Peter 1:2

who have been chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with his blood: May grace and peace be yours in abundance.

1 Peter 5:1

Now as an elder myself and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory to be revealed, I exhort the elders among you

1 Peter 5:13

Your sister church in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you greetings, and so does my son Mark.

1 John 2:21

I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and you know that no lie comes from the truth.

1 John 3:18

Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.

2 John 1:13

The children of your elect sister send you their greetings.

2 John 1:5

But now, dear lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing you a new commandment but one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another.

3 John 1:1

The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.