What Does 2 John 1:3 Mean?
Favor, faithful love, and wholeness will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
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King James Version
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.THE KEY
What reaches you from the Father and the Son is a single, intertwined gift: favor that opens toward joy, mercy, and wholeness, carried in truth and love.
THE MEANING
You are met with favor, mercy, and wholeness from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. They come to you in truth and love, as a gift rather than a reward for what you have achieved.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that you must earn God’s favor before you can receive mercy and wholeness.
THE ROOT
χάρις
charis
GROWS FROM
χαίρω
chairō
to rejoice, be glad
The Greek word χάρις belongs to the word family of χαίρω, to rejoice, and χαρά, joy. Favor here carries a nearness to gladness, while the related verb χαρίζομαι shows favor as something freely granted; this gift comes together with mercy, wholeness, truth, and love.
ALSO GROWS
chara: joy, gladness
χαρά
This related word keeps favor and joy close in the language, opening grace toward gladness.
charizomai: to grant freely, show favor, forgive
χαρίζομαι
This verb expresses the word family’s favor as a freely granted gift, as χάρις is in this blessing.
THE PATTERN
God’s favor and wholeness come as a gift held together with mercy, truth, and love.
Faithful love and truth meet; alignment and wholeness kiss.And the word became flesh and pitched a tent among us, and we beheld his weight, the weight as of the only-born from the Father, full of favor and truth.Not from works of alignment that we did, but according to his compassion he delivered us, through the bath of rebirth and the making new of the Set-Apart Breath.THE THREAD
And the word became flesh and pitched a tent among us, and we beheld his weight, the weight as of the only-born from the Father, full of favor and truth.John uses the same Greek word, χάρις (charis, favor), alongside truth. That pairing opens this blessing further: favor is not detached from truth, and both are present in the Son.
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