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Highlights: key passages

• The Reality of the Incarnation (1:1-4)
• Fellowship: Motivated by God’s Dealings in the Past (1:5–2:17)
• False Teachers: Recognition of Deception (2:18-27)
• Eschatological Hope: Motivation for Holy Living in the Present (2:28–3:10)
• Love as Basis for Assurance: Definition and Discernment (3:11-24)
• False Teachers: Discernment of False Spirits (4.1-6)
• Love: Essential to Sanctification (4:7-21)
• Faith: Assurance in our Hearts (5:1-12)
• The Advocacy of Christ: Basis for Present Confidence before God (5:13-21)

Overview of I, II, and III John

2 John: Living in Discernment

Introduction to 2 John

2 John fights false teaching in the church. Christians are characterized by their love for one another, and
this love embraces truth and resists evil. Instead of offering hospitality to false teachers, John’s readers
are not to share in their evil deeds in any fashion (2 John 10–11).

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