it seemed good to me also, following all things accurately from the very first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,
2 John 1:1 - Modern King James Version The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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, |
it seemed good to me also, following all things accurately from the very first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,
which they also did, sending to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If you, being a Jew, live as a Gentile, and not as the Jews, why do you compel the nations to judaize?
to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, to whom before your eyes Jesus Christ was written among you crucified?
You were running well. Who hindered you that you do not obey the truth?
for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel,
who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
I exhort the elders who are among you, I being also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.
I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.
My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.