Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for,<n id="1" /> but receive a full reward.<n id="2" />p>

For<n id="1" /> many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as<n id="2" /> Christ<n id="3" /> coming in the flesh.<n id="4" /> This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">From<n id="1" /> the elder,<n id="2" /> to an elect lady<n id="3" /> and her children, whom I love in truth<n id="4" /> (and not I alone, but also all those<n id="5" /> who know the truth),

because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The children of your elect sister greet you.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Though I have many other<n id="1" /> things to write to you, I do not want to do so with<n id="2" /> paper and ink,<n id="3" /> but I hope to come visit you and speak face to face,<n id="4" /> so that our joy may be complete.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">But now<n id="1" /> I ask you, lady (not as if I were<n id="2" /> writing a new commandment<n id="3" /> to you, but the one<n id="4" /> we have had from the beginning),<n id="5" /> that<n id="6" /> we love one another.

<p class="bodytext">Everyone<n id="1" /> who goes on ahead and does not remain<n id="2" /> in the teaching of Christ<n id="3" /> does not have God.<n id="4" /> The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.