Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in 2 John 1:1

“The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;”

2 John 1:1 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 2 John 1:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 Timothy 2:4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
  • John 8:32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
  • 1 John 3:18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
  • 2 John 1:13The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
  • 1 Peter 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pu…
  • 2 John 1:5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
  • 1 Peter 5:1The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall …
  • 1 John 2:21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
  • 2 John 1:2For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
  • Hebrews 10:26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
  • Galatians 5:7Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
  • Galatians 2:5To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

More to meet God in 2 John

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How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.

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