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2 John 9
New Catholic Bible
2 John 9
New Catholic Bible
9 Anyone who fails to remain faithful to the teaching of Christ but goes beyond[a] it does not have God. Only the one who remains faithful to the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son.
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- 2 John 1:9 Goes beyond: a reference to the Gnostics’ claim that they had advanced far beyond the teaching of the Apostles; they were, in effect, teaching pure speculation as apostolic doctrine (see 2 Tim 2:16; Tit 3:9).
