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The NET Bible®

2 John 1:2

because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us forever.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Doctrines;   Fellowship;   Minister, Christian;   Obedience;   The Topic Concordance - Commandment;   Company;   Love;   Obedience;   Partaking;   Truth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Excommunication;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Truth;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Eternal Life, Eternality, Everlasting Life;   Truth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - John the Apostle;   John, the Epistles of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Letter Form and Function;   Love;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Anathema;   Joy;   Love;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
because of the truth that remains in us and will be with us forever.
King James Version (1611)
For the trueths sake which dwelleth in vs, and shalbe with vs for euer:
King James Version
For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
English Standard Version
because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
New American Standard Bible
because of the truth which remains in us and will be with us forever:
New Century Version
We love you because of the truth that lives in us and will be with us forever.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
for the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever:
Berean Standard Bible
because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
Contemporary English Version
We love you because the truth is now in our hearts, and it will be there forever.
Complete Jewish Bible
because of the Truth which remains united with us and will be with us forever:
Darby Translation
for the truth's sake which abides in us and shall be with us to eternity.
Easy-to-Read Version
We love you because of the truth—the truth that lives in us. That truth will be with us forever.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the trueths sake which dwelleth in vs, and shalbe with vs for euer:
George Lamsa Translation
For the sake of the truth which dwells in us and is with us for ever,
Good News Translation
because the truth remains in us and will be with us forever.
Lexham English Bible
because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us forever.
Literal Translation
because of the truth remaining among us, and will be with us forever.
Amplified Bible
because of the truth which lives in our hearts and will be with us forever:
American Standard Version
for the truth's sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever:
Bible in Basic English
Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:
Hebrew Names Version
for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
International Standard Version
because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever.
Etheridge Translation
on account of the truth which abideth in us, and is with us for ever;
Murdock Translation
for the sake of the truth, which abideth in us and is with us for ever.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the truthes sake which dwelleth in vs, and shalbe in vs for euer:
English Revised Version
for the truth’s sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever:
World English Bible
for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
which abideth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
Weymouth's New Testament
for the sake of the truth which is continually in our hearts and will be with us for ever.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for the treuthe that dwellith in you, and with you schal be with outen ende.
Update Bible Version
for the truth's sake which abides in us, and it shall be with us forever:
Webster's Bible Translation
For the truth's sake which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
New King James Version
because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever:
New Living Translation
because the truth lives in us and will be with us forever.
New Life Bible
It is because the truth is in us and will be with us forever.
New Revised Standard
because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For the sake of the truth that abideth in us, and, with us, shall be unto times age-abiding,
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the sake of the truth which dwelleth in us and shall be with us for ever.
Revised Standard Version
because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
for the truthes sake which dwelleth in vs and shalbe in vs for ever.
Young's Literal Translation
because of the truth that is remaining in us, and with us shall be to the age,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for the truthes sake which dwelleth in vs, and shalbe with vs for euer.
Mace New Testament (1729)
in consideration of the true doctrine, we all profess, and in which we shall for ever persevere.
Simplified Cowboy Version
This is one of our goals, to know the truth and ride in it always.

Contextual Overview

1 From the elder, to an elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth (and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth), 2 because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us forever. 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 4 I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the truth's: 1 Corinthians 9:23, 2 Corinthians 4:5

which: John 15:7, Colossians 3:16, 2 Timothy 1:5, 1 Peter 1:23-25, 1 John 2:14, 1 John 2:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 6:6 - shall be Titus 3:15 - love 1 John 1:8 - the truth 1 John 1:10 - his word 1 John 2:24 - abide 1 John 2:27 - the anointing 2 John 1:1 - whom 3 John 1:3 - the truth

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
The land produced vegetation—plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,
Job 26:7
He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.
Job 26:14
Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"
Psalms 33:6
By the Lord 's decree the heavens were made; by a mere word from his mouth all the stars in the sky were created.
Isaiah 45:18
For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky— he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited— "I am the Lord , I have no peer.
Nahum 2:10
Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us,.... Not for her high birth, nobility, or riches; but either for Christ's sake, who is the truth, and who dwells in the hearts of believers by faith, and who is the same that dwells in one as in another; and on his account it is that saints love one another, because they belong to him, he is formed in them, and his image is stamped upon them; and every like loves its like: or for the Gospel's sake, which has a place, and dwells in every saint, and is the same for matter and substance in one as in another; and unity of mind and judgment produces unity of affection: or for the sake of the truth of grace, the inward principle of grace, which dwells in every regenerate person; a communication of the experience of which knits the saints one to another:

and shall be with us for ever; where Christ enters and takes up his abode, from thence he never finally and totally departs, though he may sometimes hide his face with respect to communion, or withdraw his gracious presence; and where the Gospel has once took place in the heart, and is become the ingrafted word, it can never be rooted out, or be removed; and where the truth of grace is, it will remain; it is an incorruptible seed, a well of living water, springing up into eternal life.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the truth’s sake - They love this family because they love the truth, and see it so cordially embraced and so happily exemplified. Those who love the gospel itself will rejoice in all the effects which it produces in society, on individuals, families, neighborhoods, and their hearts will be drawn with warm affection to the places where its influence is most fully seen.

Which dwelleth in us - In us who are Christians; that is, the truths of the gospel which we have embraced. Truth may be said to have taken up a permanent abode in the hearts of all who love religion.

And shall be with us for ever - Its abode with us is not for a night or a day; not for a month or a year; not for the few years that make up mortal life; it is not a passing stranger that finds a lodging like the weary traveler for a night, and in the morning is gone to be seen no more; it has come to us to make our hearts its permanent home, and it is to be with us in all worlds, and while ceaseless ages shall roll away.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 John 1:2. For the truth's sake — On account of the Gospel.

Which dwelleth in us — By the grace which it has proclaimed.

And shall be with us — For God will preserve not only the Christian religion but its truth, all its essential doctrines for ever. And they that abide in the truth shall go whither that truth leads, i.e. to glory. The Armenian has a strange reading here: "For the truth's sake which dwelleth in us, because it is also with you; and ye shall be with us for ever." But this is supported by no other version, nor by any MS.


 
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