¹The elder, to the chosen lady and to her children, whom I myself love in truth — and not I myself only, but also all those already knowing the truth —

²because of the truth which is abiding in us and will be with us forever:

³Favor, compassion, and wholeness will be with us from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

⁴I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

⁵And now I implore you, lady — not as a new commandment am I writing to you, but that which we have had from the beginning — that we may love one another.

⁶And this is the love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you heard from the beginning, that you walk in it;

⁷for many deceivers have gone out into the world, those not confessing Jesus the Anointed One coming in flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

⁸Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what things we have worked for, but may receive a full wage.

⁹Anyone who is progressing and not abiding in the teaching of the Anointed One has not God; the one who abides in the teaching of the Anointed One, this one has both the Father and the Son.

¹⁰If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into the house, and do not tell him to greet;

¹¹for the one who tells him to rejoice partakes in his evil works.

¹²Having many things to write to you, I did not purpose it with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and to speak mouth to mouth, so that our joy may be completed.

¹³The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.