2 John 1:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 10:35 : 35 So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.
  • Rev 3:11 : 11 I come quickly: keep that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.
  • 1 Cor 3:8 : 8 Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;
  • Gal 3:4 : 4 Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.
  • Mark 13:9 : 9 But take care: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins; and in Synagogues you will be whipped; and you will be taken before rulers and kings because of me, for a sign to them.
  • Mark 13:23 : 23 But take care; see, I have made all things clear to you before the time.
  • Luke 21:8 : 8 And he said, Take care that you are not tricked: for a number of people will come in my name, saying, I am he; and, The time is near: do not go after them.
  • John 4:36 : 36 He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
  • Dan 12:3 : 3 And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.
  • Matt 24:4 : 4 And Jesus said to them in answer, Take care that you are not tricked.
  • Matt 24:24-25 : 24 For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked. 25 See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about.
  • Mark 13:5-6 : 5 And Jesus said to them, Take care that you are not tricked by anyone. 6 People will come in my name, saying, I am he; and a number will be turned from the true way.
  • Gal 4:11 : 11 I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, 16 Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.
  • Phil 3:16 : 16 Only, as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule.
  • Heb 10:32 : 32 But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;
  • 1 Cor 3:14 : 14 If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
  • 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.

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    7Because 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.

  • 2 John 1:9-10
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    9Anyone 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.

    10If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love:

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

  • 3 John 1:8
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    8So 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 Cor 10:7
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    7Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

  • Col 2:8
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    8Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

  • 2 Pet 1:10
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    10For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

  • 1 Cor 1:7-8
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    7So that having every grace you are living in the hope of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

    8Who will give you strength to the end, to be free from all sin in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 John 2:28
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    28And 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.

  • 1 John 3:7
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    7My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

  • 2 Pet 1:8
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    8For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    8If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

  • 1 John 2:24
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    24But 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.

  • Heb 2:1
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    1For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

  • Jas 1:22
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    22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 1 Cor 3:14
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    14If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.

  • 2 Tim 2:14-15
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    14Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.

    15Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.

  • 2 Thess 2:2-3
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    2That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;

    3Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

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    26I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

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    15Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.

    16Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.

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    6Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

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    21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    5But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

    6He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

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    13So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

  • Gal 1:7
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    7Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.

  • 1 John 2:19
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    19They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

  • Heb 12:15
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    15Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

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    5Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • Rev 3:11
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    11I come quickly: keep that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.

  • 1 John 5:21
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    21My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

  • Heb 6:11
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    11And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:

  • Rev 3:2
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    2Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure.

  • Rev 2:25
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    25But what you have, keep safe till I come.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40So take care that these words of the prophets do not come true for you;

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    13For in our letters we say no other things to you, but those which you are reading, and to which you give agreement, and, it is my hope, will go on doing so to the end:

  • Col 2:4
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    4I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.

  • Heb 3:14
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    14For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;

  • 1 Cor 15:58
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    58For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

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    16Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.