it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent The-ophilus,
2 John 1:1 - Revised Standard Version 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, 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, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent The-ophilus,
and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
But when I saw that they were not straightforward about 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?”
to them we did not yield submission even for a moment, that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel
who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ as well as a partaker in the glory that is to be revealed.
She who is at Babylon, who is likewise chosen, sends you greetings; and so does my son Mark.
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.
Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth.
And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.