2John 1:1 Cross References
2 John 1:1
1: This letter is from John the Elder. It is written to the chosen lady and to her children, whom I love in the truth, as does everyone else who knows God's truth--
1 Timothy 2:4
- for he wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.
1 John 3:18
- Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions.
John 8:32
- And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
1 Peter 5:1
- And now, a word to you who are elders in the churches. I, too, am an elder and a witness to the sufferings of Christ. And I, too, will share his glory and his honor when he returns. As a fellow elder, this is my appeal to you:
2 John 1:5
- And now I want to urge you, dear lady, that we should love one another. This is not a new commandment, but one we had from the beginning.
1 Peter 1:22
- Now you can have sincere love for each other as brothers and sisters because you were cleansed from your sins when you accepted the truth of the Good News. So see to it that you really do love each other intensely with all your hearts.
- For you have been born again. Your new life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.
Hebrews 10:26
- Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received a full knowledge of the truth, there is no other sacrifice that will cover these sins.
Galatians 2:5
- But we refused to listen to them for a single moment. We wanted to preserve the truth of the Good News for you.
Galatians 3:1
- Oh, foolish Galatians! What magician has cast an evil spell on you? For you used to see the meaning of Jesus Christ's death as clearly as though I had shown you a signboard with a picture of Christ dying on the cross.
1 Peter 1:2
- God the Father chose you long ago, and the Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed Jesus Christ and are cleansed by his blood. May you have more and more of God's special favor and wonderful peace.
2 John 1:13
- Greetings from the children of your sister, chosen by God.
Galatians 5:7
- You were getting along so well. Who has interfered with you to hold you back from following the truth?
Galatians 2:14
- When I saw that they were not following the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter in front of all the others, "Since you, a Jew by birth, have discarded the Jewish laws and are living like a Gentile, why are you trying to make these Gentiles obey the Jewish laws you abandoned?
2 John 1:2
- the truth that lives in us and will be in our hearts forever.
- May grace, mercy, and peace, which come from God our Father and from Jesus Christ his Son, be with us who live in truth and love.
1 John 2:21
- So I am writing to you not because you don't know the truth but because you know the difference between truth and falsehood.
Ephesians 1:4
- Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.
- His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
- As we talk to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and your continual anticipation of the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- We know that God loves you, dear brothers and sisters, and that he chose you to be his own people.
2 Thessalonians 2:13
- As for us, we always thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters loved by the Lord. We are thankful that God chose you to be among the first to experience salvation, a salvation that came through the Spirit who makes you holy and by your belief in the truth.
- He called you to salvation when we told you the Good News; now you can share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Luke 1:3
- Having carefully investigated all of these accounts from the beginning, I have decided to write a careful summary for you,
Colossians 1:5
- You do this because you are looking forward to the joys of heaven--as you have been ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.