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It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.

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And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.

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And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

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Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

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Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

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Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

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If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love:

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For he who gives him words of love has a part in his evil works.