2 John 1:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • 3 John 1:3-4 : 3 For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way. 4 I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
  • Phil 4:10 : 10 But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.
  • 1 Thess 2:19-20 : 19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming? 20 For you are our glory and our joy.
  • 1 Thess 3:6-9 : 6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you; 7 For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith; 8 For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged. 9 For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God; 10 Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.
  • 1 John 2:6 : 6 He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
  • Mal 2:6 : 6 True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.
  • Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

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    1 I, a ruler in the church, send word to the well loved Gaius, for whom I have true love.

    2 My loved one, it is my prayer that you may do well in all things, and be healthy in body, even as your soul does well.

    3 For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.

    4 I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.

    5 My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;

  • 2 John 1:1-3
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    1 I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;

    2 Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:

    3 May grace, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in all true love.

  • 2 John 1:5-9
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    5 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.

    6 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.

    7 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.

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

    9 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.

  • 1 John 1:1-4
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    1 That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

    2 (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);

    3 We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

    4 And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.

  • 1 John 2:13-14
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    13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.

    14 I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

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    11 Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,

  • 3 John 1:8
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    8 So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith.

  • 2 John 1:12-13
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    12 Having much to say to you, it is not my purpose to put it all down with paper and ink: but I am hoping to come to you, and to have talk with you face to face, so that your joy may be full.

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  • 1 John 3:23-24
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    23 And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

    24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

  • 1 John 2:6-8
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    6 He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

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    8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

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    28 And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.

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    4 Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;

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    4 After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

    19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

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    1 And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

    2 Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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    5 Hearing of the love and the faith which you have to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints;

  • 2 Thess 1:2
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    2 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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    2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

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    4 You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

  • 1 Tim 1:2-3
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    2 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

    3 It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching,

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    12 Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.

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    15 For this cause I, having had news of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which you make clear to all the saints,

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    21 I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

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    7 For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.

  • Phlm 1:3
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    3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 1:2
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    2 To Timothy, my well-loved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • 1 John 2:24
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    24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.

  • 1 Cor 1:3
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    3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Eph 6:23
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    23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.