The elderly man to the chosen Kuria,
and to her children, whom I love in truth (and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth):
Through that truth which remains in us and will be with us for the age: Generosity, mercy, and peace will be with us in truth and love from Father God and from Anointed Jesus the Father's son.
I rejoiced greatly that I found one of your children walking in truth, just as we received the precept from the Father. And now I am begging you, Kuria (not as though it is a new precept that I am writing to you; on the contrary, it is one that we had from the beginning), that we should love one another. And this is love: that we walk according to his precepts. This is the precept, just as you heard from the beginning, in order that you may walk in it.
Because many deceivers have gone out into creation--those who do not acknowledge that Anointed Jesus came in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the one who opposes the Anointed One. Look at yourselves, so that you would not lose the things that we worked on, but that you might receive a full reward.
No one who goes ahead and does not remain in the teaching of the Anointed One has God. The one who remains in the teaching: this one has both the Father and the son. If someone comes to you who does not carry this teaching, do not take him into your house or even say hello to him. For the one who says hello to him is sharing in his deeds of evil.
Since I have many things to write to you, I did not want to do so with paper and ink. Instead, I hope to happen by you and to speak mouth to mouth, so that your joy may be completed.
The children of your chosen sister greet you.
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