First Reading: 2 John 4-9

⁴ I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
⁵ And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
⁶ And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
⁷ For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
⁸ Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
⁹ Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.