Coverdale Bible
1535 by Miles Coverdale
2Jo 1:1 The Elder. To ye electe lady and hir childre whom I loue in the trueth: & not I onely, but all they also that haue knowne the trueth,
2Jo 1:2 for the truthes sake which dwelleth in vs, and shalbe with vs for euer.
2Jo 1:3 Grace, mercy, and peace be with you fro the LORDE Iesus Christ ye sonne of the father in the trueth and in loue.
2Jo 1:4 I am greatly reioysed, that I haue founde amonge thy children, them that walke in ye trueth, as we haue receaued a commaundement of the father.
2Jo 1:5 And now lady I beseke the (not as though I wrote a new commaundement vnto the, but the same which we haue had from the begynnynge) that we loue one another.
2Jo 1:6 And this is the loue, that we walke after his commaundementes. This is the commaundement (as ye haue herde fro the begynnynge) that we shulde walke therin.
2Jo 1:7 For many disceauers are come in to the worlde, which confesse not yt Iesus Christ is come in the flesh: this is a disceauer and an Antechrist.
2Jo 1:8 Take hede to youre selues, that we lose not that which we haue wrought, but that we maye receaue a full rewarde.
2Jo 1:9 Whoso euer transgresseth, and abydeth not in the doctryne of Christ, hath not God: he that abydeth in ye doctryne of Christ, hath both the father and the sonne.
2Jo 1:10 Yf eny man come vnto you, and brynge not this doctryne, receaue him not in to the house, nether salute him:
2Jo 1:11 for he that saluteth him, is partaker of his euell dedes.
2Jo 1:12 I had many thinges to wryte vnto you: neuertheles I wolde not wryte wt papyre and ynke, but I trust to come vnto you, and to speake with you mouth mouth, that oure ioye maye be full.
2Jo 1:13 The children of thy electe sister salute the. Amen.
