4 I was overjoyed to find some of your children living in the truth, just as we had been commanded by the Father.
5 Now, dear friends, I am requesting that we love each other. It’s not as though I’m writing a new command to you, but it’s one we have had from the beginning.
6 This is love: that we live according to his commands. This is the command that you heard from the beginning: live in love.
7 Many deceivers have gone into the world who do not confess that Jesus Christ came as a human being. This kind of person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
8 Watch yourselves so that you don’t lose what we’ve worked for but instead receive a full reward.
9 Anyone who goes too far and does not continue in the teaching about Christ does not have God. Whoever continues in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.
10 Whoever comes to you who does not affirm this teaching should neither be received nor welcomed into your home,