¹⁶If any one see his brother sin a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he will give him life,—to those who sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death; for that I do not say that he shall pray.

¹⁷All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not unto death.

¹⁸We know that every one who has been begotten of God sins not; but he that was begotten of God keeps himself; and the evil one touches him not.

¹⁹We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the evil one. ²⁰And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us understanding, that we may know the True one; and we are in the True One, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

²¹Little children, keep yourselves from the idols.

[THE SECOND LETTER OF JOHN.]

THE elder to the elect lady, and to her children, whom I love in truth,—and not I alone but also all that know the truth,— ²for the sake of the truth, which abides in us, and will be with us forever: ³Grace, mercy, peace, shall be with you, from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

⁴I rejoiced greatly, that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father. ⁵And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. ⁶And this is love, that we walk according to his commandment; and this is the commandment, as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it. ⁷Because many deceivers went out into the world, who acknowledge not that Jesus Christ comes in the flesh. This is the deceiver, and the antichrist.

⁸Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we wrought, but receive a full reward. ⁹Every one who transgresses, and abides not^[8] in the teaching of Christ, has not God. He that abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.