Devine Scripture

2 John 1:4

2 John chapter 1 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I rejoice greatly that I have foundcertainof thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

I rejoice greatly that I have foundcertainof thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

Context

v.3Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

v.4This passage

v.5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ephesians 5:2

    and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

  • Hosea 14:9

    Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.

  • 1 John 2:6

    he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

  • 1 Thessalonians 3:6

    But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also to see you;

  • Galatians 2:14

    But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

  • Malachi 2:6

    The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.