2 John 1:10

The Passion Translation

So if anyone comes into your fellowship claiming to be a true believer yet doesn’t bring this teaching, you are not to consider him as a fellow believer, nor should you welcome him into your homes.

Cross References

Genesis 24:12

He prayed: “Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, let my journey here be a success and show your gracious love to my master Abraham.

Psalm 129:8

Let no one who sees them say, “May the blessings of Yahweh be upon your life. May the Lord bless you.”

Acts 15:23

They sent with them this letter: “Greetings from the apostles and pastors, and from your fellow believers—to our non-Jewish brothers and sisters living in Antioch in Syria and the nearby regions.

1 Corinthians 16:22

If anyone doesn’t sincerely love the Lord, he deserves to be doomed as an outcast. Our Lord has come!

1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I’m writing to you so that you would exclude from your fellowship anyone who calls himself a fellow believer and practices sexual immorality, or is consumed with greed, or is an idolater, or is verbally abusive or a drunkard or a swindler. Don’t mingle with them or even have a meal with someone like that.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

Take special note of anyone who won’t obey what we have written and stay away from them, so that they would be ashamed and get turned around.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Beloved brothers and sisters, we instruct you, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to stay away from believers who are unruly and who stray from all that we have taught you.

Titus 3:10

After a first and second warning, have nothing more to do with a divisive person who refuses to be corrected.

2 John 1:11

For if you welcome him as a believer, you will be partnering with him in his evil agenda.

3 John 1:10

So if I come, I will address what he’s doing—spreading his malicious slander against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome our brothers, and he stands in the way of those who want to receive them and show them hospitality by throwing them out of the church!