{
    "translation": "Weymouth NT",
    "abbreviation": "weymouth",
    "lang": "en",
    "language": "English",
    "direction": "LTR",
    "encoding": "",
    "book_nr": 63,
    "book_name": "2 John",
    "chapter": 1,
    "name": "2 John 1",
    "verses": [
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 1,
            "name": "2 John 1:1",
            "text": "The Elder to the elect lady and her children. Truly I love you all, and not I alone, but also all who know the truth,"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 2,
            "name": "2 John 1:2",
            "text": "for the sake of the truth which is continually in our hearts and will be with us for ever."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 3,
            "name": "2 John 1:3",
            "text": "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."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 4,
            "name": "2 John 1:4",
            "text": "It is an intense joy to me to have found some of your children living true Christian lives, in obedience to the command which we have received from the Father."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 5,
            "name": "2 John 1:5",
            "text": "And now, dear lady, I pray you--writing to you, as I do, not a new command, but the one which we have had from the very beginning--let us love one another."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 6,
            "name": "2 John 1:6",
            "text": "The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 7,
            "name": "2 John 1:7",
            "text": "For many deceivers have gone out into the world--men who do not acknowledge Jesus as Christ who has come in human nature. Such a one is `the deceiver' and `the anti-Christ.'"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 8,
            "name": "2 John 1:8",
            "text": "Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 9,
            "name": "2 John 1:9",
            "text": "No one has God, who instead of remaining true to the teaching of Christ, presses on in advance: but he who remains true to that teaching has both the Father and the Son."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 10,
            "name": "2 John 1:10",
            "text": "If any one who comes to you does not bring this teaching, do not receive him under your roof nor bid him Farewell."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 11,
            "name": "2 John 1:11",
            "text": "He who bids him Farewell is a sharer in his evil deeds."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 12,
            "name": "2 John 1:12",
            "text": "I have a great deal to say to you all, but will not write it with paper and ink. Yet I hope to come to see you and speak face to face, so that your happiness may be complete."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 13,
            "name": "2 John 1:13",
            "text": "The children of your elect sister send greetings to you."
        }
    ]
}