2 John

Second John is a brief letter — the length of a single sheet — to 'the chosen lady and her children,' most likely a local church and its members. Its message is beautifully simple: keep walking in the truth, and love one another. But love and truth belong together. John warns sharply against traveling deceivers who deny that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, and he urges the church not to extend the kind of hospitality that would help spread a false Christ. In a few short lines the letter holds two things many try to separate — wholehearted love and unwavering truth — and insists that real Christian love never abandons the truth about Jesus.