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This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/alford/2_john/1.htm" title="Henry Alford - Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary">Alford</a> • <a href="/commentaries/barnes/2_john/1.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/bengel/2_john/1.htm" title="Bengel's Gnomen">Bengel</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/2_john/1.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/2_john/1.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/2_john/1.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/2_john/1.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/2_john/1.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_john/1.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/2_john/1.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/2_john/1.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/egt/2_john/1.htm" title="Expositor's Greek">Exp Grk</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/2_john/1.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/2_john/1.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/2_john/1.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/2_john/1.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/2_john/1.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/2_john/1.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/1_john/5-21.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/2_john/1.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/icc/2_john/1.htm" title="ICC NT Commentary">ICC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/2_john/1.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/2_john/1.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/2_john/1.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/2_john/1.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/2_john/1.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/2_john/1.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/2_john/1.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/meyer/2_john/1.htm" title="Meyer Commentary">Meyer</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/2_john/1.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pnt/2_john/1.htm" title="People's New Testament">PNT</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/2_john/1.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_john/1.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/2_john/1.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/2_john/1.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/2_john/1.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/vws/2_john/1.htm" title="Vincent's Word Studies">VWS</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/2_john/1.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/2_john/1.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/2_john/1-6.htm" title="And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it....">2 John 1:6-7</a></span>. <span class="ital">And this is love </span>— The principal proof of true love, first to God, and then to his people; <span class="ital">that we walk after his commandments </span>— That we be obedient to his will in all things. <span class="ital">This </span>love <span class="ital">is the </span>great <span class="ital">commandment, </span>which <span class="ital">ye have heard from the beginning </span>— Of our preaching; that <span class="ital">ye should walk in it </span>— Should persevere in love. <span class="ital">For many deceivers, </span>&c. — See on <a href="/1_john/4-1.htm" title="Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.">1 John 4:1</a> : as if he had said, Carefully keep what you have heard from the beginning; for many seducers are come; <span class="ital">who confess not that Jesus Christ is come </span>— Or came, as <span class="greekheb">ερχομενον </span>(considered as the participle of the imperfect) may be rendered; for Jesus Christ was not on earth in the flesh when John wrote this; as the translation in our Bible, <span class="ital">is come, </span>imports. He had come in the flesh, but was gone. So that no translation of this clause, which represents Jesus Christ as then present, can be just. The apostle alludes to the rise of those heretics, who affirmed that Christ came only in appearance; and who, of course, denied his priestly, if not also his prophetic and kingly office. <span class="ital">This </span>— Every one who does this, who does not acknowledge that Christ came in the flesh; <span class="ital">is a deceiver </span>— A seducer from God; <span class="ital">and antichrist </span>— An enemy to Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/2_john/1.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>1:4-6 It is good to be trained to early religion; and children may be beloved for their parents' sake. It gave great joy to the apostle to see children treading in their parents' steps, and likely in their turn to support the gospel. May God bless such families more and more, and raise up many to copy their example. How pleasing the contrast to numbers who spread irreligion, infidelity, and vice, among their children! Our walk is true, our converse right, when according to the word of God. This commandment of mutual Christian love, may be said to be a new one, in respect of its being declared by the Lord Christ; yet, as to the matter, it is old. And this is love to our own souls, that we obey the Divine commands. The foresight of the decay of this love, as well as of other apostacies, or fallings away, might engage the apostle to urge this duty, and this command, frequently and earnestly.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/2_john/1.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>And this is love, that we walk after his commandments - This is the proper expression or evidence of love to God. See the notes at <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-15.htm">John 14:15</a>, <a href="/john/14-21.htm">John 14:21</a>.<p>This is the commandment - That is, this is his great and special commandment; the one by which his disciples are to be especially characterized, and by which they are to be distinguished in the world. See the notes at <a href="/john/13-34.htm">John 13:34</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/2_john/1.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>6. "Love is the fulfilling of the law" (Ro 13:10), and the fulfilling of the law is the sure test of love.<p>This is the commandment—Greek, "The commandment is this," namely, love, in which all God's other commandments are summed up.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/2_john/1.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> From this particular command he passes to what is more general, requiring in all things a strict and unanimous adherence to the pure and primitive doctrine of the gospel, which would be the best expression of love to God, and the true centre and bond of love to one another, as <span class="bld"><a href="/1_john/5-1.htm" title="Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him.">1Jo 5:1</a>,3</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/2_john/1.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And this is love, that we walk after his commandments,.... By observing them as a rule of conversation, in so doing love is shown to God; and such may expect the fresh discoveries of the love of God to, them; See Gill on <a href="/1_john/5-3.htm">1 John 5:3</a>; <p>this is the commandment, that as ye have heard from the beginning, <p>ye should walk in it; that is, this is the will of God, that his people should walk in the truth of the Gospel, and abide by it, as they heard and received it at their first conversion, from the mouths of the apostles, or other faithful ministers of the word; a reason for which, is given in <a href="/2_john/1-7.htm">2 John 1:7</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/2_john/1.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/2_john/1.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/2_john/1-6.htm" title="And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.">2 John 1:6</a>. <span class="greekheb">ἡ ἀγάπη</span>, “the love just referred to”. <span class="greekheb">περιπ</span>. <span class="greekheb">κατὰ τὰς ἐντ</span>. <span class="greekheb">αὐτ</span>., regulating our lives by their requirements; <span class="greekheb">περιπ</span>. <span class="greekheb">ἐν ἀληθείᾳ</span> (<a href="/2_john/1-4.htm" title="I rejoiced greatly that I found of your children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.">2 John 1:4</a>), keeping within the limits of the Christian revelation and not straying beyond them—not <span class="greekheb">προάγοντες</span> (<a href="/2_john/1-9.htm" title="Whoever transgresses, and stays not in the doctrine of Christ, has not God. He that stays in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son.">2 John 1:9</a>). <span class="greekheb">αὐτῇ</span>, <span class="ital">i.e.</span>, “love,” not “the commandment” (Vulg.: <span class="ital">Hoc est mandatum, ut … in eo ambuletis</span>). <span class="greekheb">περιπατεῖν ἐν ἀγάπῃ</span> is synonymous with <span class="greekheb">περιπατεῖν ἐν ἀληθείᾳ</span>, since Love is Truth in practice. <span class="ital">Cf.</span> the story of R. Hillel: A mocking Gentile promised to become a proselyte if he would teach him the whole Law while he stood on one foot—a gibe at the multitudinous precepts, reckoned at 613. “What is hateful to thyself,” said the Rabbi, “do not to thy neighbour. This is the whole Law; the rest is commentary.” <span class="ital">Yalk. Chad.</span>, lix. 2; “qui justum cibat frusto, perinde est acsi totum Pentateuchum servasset”.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/2_john/1.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">6</span>. <span class="ital">And this is love</span>] Or, <span class="ital">And</span> <span class="bld">the love is this</span>: the love which I mean consists in this (see on <a href="/1_john/1-5.htm" title="This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.">1 John 1:5</a>). In <span class="ital"><a href="/2_john/1-5.htm" title="And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.">2 John 1:5</a></span> obedience prompts love; here love prompts obedience. This is no vicious logical circle, but a healthy moral connexion, as is stated above on <span class="ital"><a href="/2_john/1-4.htm" title="I rejoiced greatly that I found of your children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.">2 John 1:4</a></span>. Love divorced from duty will run riot, and duty divorced from love will starve. See on <a href="/1_john/5-3.htm" title="For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.">1 John 5:3</a>. The Apostle has no sympathy with a religion of pious emotions: there must be a <span class="ital">persevering walk according to God’s commands</span>. In writing to a woman it might be all the more necessary to insist on the fact that love is not a mere matter of feeling.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">This is the commandment</span>] Or, as before, <span class="ital">The commandment is this</span>, i.e. consists in this. We had a similar transition from plural to singular, ‘commandments’ to ‘commandment’ in <a href="/context/1_john/3-22.htm" title="And whatever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight....">1 John 3:22-23</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>In these verses (5, 6) S. John seems to be referring to the First Epistle, which she would know.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">as ye have heard</span>] Better, as R. V., <span class="bld">even as ye heard</span>, referring to the time when they were first instructed in Christian Ethics. See on ‘received’ in <span class="ital"><a href="/2_john/1-4.htm" title="I rejoiced greatly that I found of your children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.">2 John 1:4</a></span>. R. V. is also more accurate in placing ‘that’ after, instead of before, ‘even as ye heard’. But A. V. is not wrong, for ‘even as ye heard’ belongs to the apodosis, not to the protasis: still, this is interpretation rather than translation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">ye should walk in it</span>] In brotherly love; not, in the commandment, as the Vulgate implies. S. John speaks of walking <span class="ital">in</span> (<span class="greekheb">ἐν</span>) truth, <span class="ital">in</span> light, <span class="bld"><span class="ital">in</span></span> darkness; but of walking <span class="ital">according to</span> (<span class="greekheb">κατά</span>) the commandments. S. Paul speaks both of walking <span class="bld"><span class="ital">in</span></span> love (<a href="/ephesians/5-2.htm" title="And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling smell.">Ephesians 5:2</a>) and <span class="ital">according to</span> love (<a href="/romans/14-15.htm" title="But if your brother be grieved with your meat, now walk you not charitably. Destroy not him with your meat, for whom Christ died.">Romans 14:15</a>). Neither speaks of walking <span class="bld"><span class="ital">in</span></span> commandments: and in <a href="/luke/1-6.htm" title="And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.">Luke 1:6</a> a different verb is used. Moreover the context here is in favour of ‘in it’ meaning in love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/2_john/1.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/2_john/1-6.htm" title="And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.">2 John 1:6</a>. <span class="greekheb">Αὐτοῦ</span>, <span class="ital">of Him</span>) the Father, <a href="/2_john/1-4.htm" title="I rejoiced greatly that I found of your children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.">2 John 1:4</a>.—<span class="greekheb">ἐν αὐτῇ</span>, <span class="ital">in it</span>) in love. This verse contains a very pleasing Epanodos.[5]—<span class="greekheb">ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤῆΤΕ</span>, <span class="ital">ye walk</span>) He had just before said, <span class="ital">that we walk</span>. Now the second person answers to the verb, <span class="ital">ye have heard</span>; that is, from us the apostles.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>[5] Repetition of the same words in inverse order. See Append.—E.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_john/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 6.</span> - And this is love; <span class="accented">i.e.</span>, the love which the commandment enjoins consists in this - active and unremitting obedience. Just as in the sphere of thought truth must be combined with love (see on verse 3), so in the sphere of emotion love must be combined with obedience. Warm feelings, whether towards God or towards man, are worse than valueless if they are not united, on the one hand with obedience, on the other with truth. This was the elect lady's danger; in the exuberance of her chanty she was forgetting her obligations to the truth and the commandment. 2 John 1:6<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/2_john/1.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>Love (ἡ ἀγάπη)<p>The love just mentioned in the verb we love.<p>That (ἵνα)<p>See on <a href="/john/15-13.htm">John 15:13</a>.<p>After His commandments (κατὰ τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ)<p>For walk, with κατά after, according to, see <a href="/mark/7-5.htm">Mark 7:5</a>; <a href="/romans/8-4.htm">Romans 8:4</a>; <a href="/romans/14-15.htm">Romans 14:15</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/3-3.htm">1 Corinthians 3:3</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/10-2.htm">2 Corinthians 10:2</a>. Very often with ἐν in. See <a href="/john/8-12.htm">John 8:12</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/11-9.htm">John 11:9</a>, <a href="/john/11-10.htm">John 11:10</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/4-2.htm">2 Corinthians 4:2</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/1-7.htm">1 John 1:7</a>, <a href="/1_john/1-10.htm">1 John 1:10</a>. Both constructions are found <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/10-2.htm">2 Corinthians 10:2</a>, <a href="/2_corinthians/10-3.htm">2 Corinthians 10:3</a>.<p>From the beginning (ἀπ' ἀρχῆς)<p>See on <a href="/john/1-1.htm">John 1:1</a>.<p>In it (ἐν αὐτῇ)<p>In love: not the commandment. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/2_john/1-6.htm">2 John 1:6 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../2_john/1-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 John 1:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 John 1:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_john/1-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 John 1:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 John 1:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>