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Truth and love belong together in this brief letter. Its appeal to walk in love stands beside a warning about teaching that denies Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. Hospitality is treated as a real form of participation that calls for discernment.
EDITORIAL REFLECTION · NOT SCRIPTURE
Read by paragraph, keeping the argument in view. Words that connect sentences often tell you whether the writer is explaining, contrasting, giving a reason, or drawing a conclusion. A familiar verse gains depth when those connections remain visible.
Notice the people and situations named in the letter. Instructions belong to relationships and concerns, not only to a list of ideas. Summarise a paragraph in your own words, then check whether your summary accounts for all of its parts.
Use the outline to see the larger movement before settling into a chapter. Each section opens at its first chapter in the reader.
1The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,
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.
4I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
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.
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How does the letter hold loving conduct together with careful discernment?
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