2 John 1:3

2 John 1:3. Grace, mercy, peace, shall be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. This is the old invocation, with which the other apostles have made us familiar, but in its fullest form as found in the Pastoral Epistles. It had become the sacred benediction, as including the whole compass of the Divine blessing in the Gospel: grace refers to the fountain of favour to undeserving man revealed in Christ; mercy to the individual application of that favour in the forgiveness of sins and the succour of all misery; peace to the result in the tranquillity of a soul one with God. These blessings come from the Father through the Son of the Father; but the repetition of the ‘from' makes emphatic the distinctness and equality of the Two Persons. There is here an observable deviation from St. Paul's formula; as also in the addition of ‘truth and love' the two spheres or characteristics of the Christian life in which, though not on account of which, these blessings are imparted. These last words also explain the ‘shall be' of the invocation: they express the apostle's confidence that his friends, living in truth of doctrine and charity of fellowship, will ever enjoy this benediction in common with himself.