2 John 1:1 Cross References - NSB

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

³ Most excellent Theophilus (Greek: Theo philos: friend of God): I have accurately traced the course of all things from the beginning. Now it seems good to me to write this report to you.

³² »You will know the truth and the truth will make you free!«

⁵ We did not yield to them for a moment or an hour! That way the truth of the good news (the whole body of Christian teachings) might continue with you.

¹⁴ I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the good news. Therefore I said to Cephas, in front of them all: »If you, being a Jew, live as the nations do and not as the Jews, why do you compel the people of the nations to live like the Jews?«

¹ O foolish Galatians, who fascinated (cast a spell over) (beguiled) (influenced) you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was openly presented impaled.

⁷ You were running well! Who hindered you that you should not obey the truth?

⁴ He chose us through him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love. ⁵ He predetermined (ordained) us to adoption, as sons to himself through Jesus Christ, according to the kind intention of his will.

⁵ This is because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You heard about this hope from the word of truth, the good news.

³ We continually remember your work of faith, labor of love, and patience, and your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. ⁴ We know your calling brothers, beloved of God.

¹³ We always have to thank God for you, brothers. Jehovah loves you and we thank God that in the beginning he chose you to be saved through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. ¹⁴ It was for this he called you through our good news. This is so you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ It is God’s desire that all men have salvation and come to the full (precise) (accurate) (correct) knowledge (Greek: epignosis: recognition, discernment) of the truth.

²⁶ If we continue to (practice) (deliberately persist in) sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins.

² You who are chosen and foreknown by God the Father. You have been sanctified by the Spirit to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood. Grace and peace be greatly increased to you.

²² You have purified your hearts by obeying the truth. You have genuine affection for the brothers and sisters. So always love one another intensely (extremely) (deeply) from the heart. ²³ You have been given a new birth, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and endures.

¹ I exhort the elders among you. I too am an older man and a witness of the sufferings of Christ. I am also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed.

²¹ I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

¹⁸ My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

² The truth lives in our hearts forever. ³ In truth and love, God the Father and Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father send you grace, mercy and peace.

⁵ Now I ask 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.

¹³ The children of your sister the chosen one greet you.

¹³ I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write them to you with ink and pen. ¹⁴ I hope to see you shortly. We shall speak face to face. Peace to you! The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.