2nd John Chapter 1 verse 10 Holy Bible
If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into `your' house, and give him no greeting:
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If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love:
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If any one come to you and bring not this doctrine, do not receive him into [the] house, and greet him not;
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If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
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If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,
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if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, `Hail!'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - If any one cometh unto you. As in 1 John 5:9, the Greek construction (indicative with εἰ, not conjunctive with ἐάν shows that the case is stated as a fact, and not as a mere supposition. "If people of this kind come - and it is well known that they do - do not receive them or give them a welcome." It is of the utmost importance to remember that St. John is here giving a rule for a special case, not laying down a general principle. His words give no sanction to the view that no hospitality is to be shown to heretics, still less to the monstrous mediaeval doctrine that no faith need be kept with them. The apostle is giving directions to a particular Christian household during a particular crisis in the history of the Christian faith. It by no means follows that he would have given the same directions to every household during that crisis, or to any household under totally different circumstances. We may well believe that he would not have followed them himself, but would have endeavoured "to convince the gainsayers." His charity towards them would not have been misunderstood, and his faith would not have been in danger of being subverted. It was otherwise with her and her children, as experience had proved. And before we take this verse as a rule for our own guidance, we must consider the difference, which may well constitute an essential difference, between a time in which those who confessed Jesus Christ coming in the flesh were a despised and persecuted handful, and one in which some courage is required to avow that one denies him.
