3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
4 I greatly rejoiced that I found some of your children walking in truth as we were commanded by the Father.
5 And now I ask you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
6 And this is love: that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
7 For many deceivers, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Each one is a deceiver and an antichrist.
8 Watch yourselves, so that we do not lose those things for which we have worked, but that we receive a full reward.
9 Whoever transgresses and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teaching of Christ has both the Father and the Son.