Because this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love each other.
This is my commandment, that ye love each other, just as I have loved you.
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but what we had from the beginning, that we would love each other.
Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.
And above all having fervent love for yourselves, because love will cover a multitude of sins,
And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly,
And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.
And this is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.
Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,
But the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and non-hypocritical faith.
Bear the burdens of each other, and so fulfill the law of the Christ.
rises from supper, and set his garments aside, and after taking a towel, he girded himself.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.