New Testament · Book 63 of 66
2 John
The elder writes to ‘the elect lady and her children’ — thirteen verses of truth and love, with a warning not to welcome those who bring another doctrine.
- 1Chapter
- 13Verses
- Truth + loveTwin notes
“And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.”
Structure
Section pages
Each section is one focused part of 2 John — purpose, key movements, key verses, Christ-in-this-section. Roughly five minutes each.
Themes
Truth and love together: The letter holds the two notes of Johannine pastoral care in tension: love for the brethren and doctrinal fidelity. Each without the other distorts the gospel.
Guarded hospitality: ‘If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house’ (v. 10) — a culturally situated warning against the docetic teachers whose hospitality became endorsement.
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Where 2 John leads
146 cross-references flow out of its 1 heaviest chapters · 8 words are distinctively its own.
Counted live from the reference floor (heaviest chapter pairs · tagged word floor · featured-page citations).