2 John 1:1

⁴who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

¹⁸My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

³²You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

⁵Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

¹Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed:

¹³The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.

²²Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently, ²³having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

^21[+] I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

²⁶For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

²for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever: ³Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ,^[+] the Son of the Father, in truth and love.