Chosen Lady, “Watch yourselves that you do not lose what we have accomplished’ What had they accomplished?
2 John 1
7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. 9Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. 10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
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Spreading of the gospel
It is a warning against gnosticism. Some sects of gnostics adopted the story of Jesus but made him into a "spirit-being" having no material body. Those who taught that idea began creeping into the early Church and leading people astray. They are "those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh".
Jesus taught that a person's conduct was either good or evil. But some gnostic groups taught that since the material body was evil but the spirit was not evil, any act done by the body did not affect the spirit. This led many to live lives of hedonism, all the while believing that it did not affect their salvation. Those were the ones who did not "abide in the teaching of Christ".
The writer goes on to say "anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house", meaning that they should avoid all those people and groups who were creating "their own gospel".
Whats the question you idiot.