We must live in obedience to God’s commands. The command, as you have all heard from the beginning, is that you must all live in love.
(2 John 6, Good News Bible)
Love means that we do what God tells us. And from the beginning, he told you to love him.
(2 John 6, Contemporary English Version)
Anyone who does not stay with the teaching of Christ, but gores beyond it, does not have God.
(2 John 9, Good News For Modern Man New Testament)