My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another.
Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.
A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ: and love one another, as he hath given commandment unto us.
But he said: He that shewed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and do thou in like manner.
Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation, and clamour, and blasphemy, be put away from you, with all malice.
Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.
For this is the declaration, which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.
Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.