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For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. Look to yourselves, that ye [a]lose not the things which [b]we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward. Whosoever [c]goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

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  1. 2 John 1:8 Or, destroy
  2. 2 John 1:8 Many ancient authorities read ye.
  3. 2 John 1:9 Or, taketh the lead. Compare 3 Jn. 9.

I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ(A) as coming in the flesh,(B) have gone out into the world.(C) Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.(D) Watch out that you do not lose what we[a] have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.(E) Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ(F) does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.(G)

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  1. 2 John 1:8 Some manuscripts you