2 John 1:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Although I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink; instead, I hope to come to you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

Cross References

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak face to face—clearly, not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. “Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

John 15:11

I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

John 16:12

“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

John 16:24

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

John 17:13

But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.

John 3:29

He who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. For this reason my joy has been fulfilled.

Romans 15:24

when I go to Spain. For I do hope to see you on my journey and to be sent on by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a little while.

2 Timothy 1:4

Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.

Philemon 1:22

One thing more: prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be restored to you.

Hebrews 13:19

I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you very soon.

Hebrews 13:23

I want you to know that our brother Timothy has been set free, and if he comes in time he will be with me when I see you.

1 John 1:4

We are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

3 John 1:10

So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing in spreading false charges against us. And not content with those charges, he refuses to welcome the brothers and sisters and even prevents those who want to do so and expels them from the church.