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2 John 1:4
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2 because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever:
3 aGrace, mercy, and peace will be with1 you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.  

Walk in Christ’s Commandments

4 I arejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.  
5 And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: athat we love one another.  
6 aThis is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that bas you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.  

Beware of Antichrist Deceivers

7 For amany deceivers have gone out into the world bwho do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. cThis is a deceiver and an antichrist.  
8 aLook to yourselves, bthat we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.  
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2 John 1:4

I rejoice (exarhn). Second aorist passive of xairw as in III John 1:3, "of a glad surprise" (D. Smith), as in Mark 14:11, over the discovery about the blessing of their godly home on these lads.

Greatly (lian). Only here and III John 1:3 in John's writings.

I have found (eurhka). Perfect active indicative of euriskw as in John 1:41, our "eureka," here with its usual force, a continued discovery. "He sits down at once and writes to Kyria. How glad she would be that her lads, far away in the great city, were true to their early faith" (David Smith).

Certain of thy children (ek twn teknwn). No tinav as one would expect before ek, a not infrequent idiom in the N.T. (John 16:17).

Walking (peripatountav). Present active accusative supplementary participle agreeing with tinav understood. Probably members of the church off here in Ephesus.

In truth (en alhqeiai). As in verse II John 1:1; III John 1:4.

We received (elabomen). Second aorist active (possibly, though not certainly, literary plural) of lambanw. This very idiom (entolhn lambanw) in John 10:18; Acts 17:15; Colossians 4:10. Perhaps the reference here is to I John 2:7 f.; I John 3:23.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 John 1:4:

2 John 1:6
3 John 1:3
3 John 1:4

 

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