From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for December 25   
      
   2 John   
   Chapter 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 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.   
      
   3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the   
   Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.   
      
   4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as   
   we have received a commandment from the Father.   
      
   5 And 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.   
      
   6 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.   
      
   7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that   
   Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.   
      
   8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have   
   wrought, but that we receive a full reward.   
      
   9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ,   
   hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both   
   the Father and the Son.   
      
   10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him   
   not into your house, neither bid him God speed:   
      
   11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.   
      
   12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper   
   and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our   
   joy may be full.   
      
   13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.   
      
   3 John   
   Chapter 1   
   1 The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.   
      
   2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in   
   health, even as thy soul prospereth.   
      
   3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the   
   truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.   
      
   4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.   
      
   5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren,   
   and to strangers;   
      
   6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if   
   thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:   
      
   7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of   
   the Gentiles.   
      
   8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to   
   the truth.   
      
   9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the   
   preeminence among them, receiveth us not.   
      
   10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth,   
   prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith,   
   neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that   
   would, and casteth them out of the church.   
      
   11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He   
   that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.   
      
   12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea,   
   and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.   
      
   13 I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write   
   unto thee:   
      
   14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to   
   face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.   
      
   Jude   
   Chapter 1   
   1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that   
   are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:   
      
   2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.   
      
   3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common   
   salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that   
   ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto   
   the saints.   
      
   4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old   
   ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God   
   into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus   
   Christ.   
      
   5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how   
   that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,   
   afterward destroyed them that believed not.   
      
   6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own   
   habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto   
   the judgment of the great day.   
      
   7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner,   
   giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh,   
   are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.   
      
   8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise   
   dominion, and speak evil of dignities.   
      
   9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed   
   about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing   
   accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.   
      
   10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what   
   they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt   
   themselves.   
      
   11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran   
   greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the   
   gainsaying of Core.   
      
   12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you,   
   feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried   
   about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead,   
   plucked up by the roots;   
      
   13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering   
   stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.   
      
   14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying,   
   Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,   
      
   15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly   
   among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed,   
   and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against   
   him.   
      
   16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and   
   their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in   
   admiration because of advantage.   
      
   17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the   
   apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;   
      
   18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who   
   should walk after their own ungodly lusts.   
      
   19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.   
      
   20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith,   
   praying in the Holy Ghost,   
      
   21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord   
   Jesus Christ unto eternal life.   
      
   22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:   
      
   23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even   
   the garment spotted by the flesh.   
      
   24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present   
   you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,   
      
      
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