And now I ask you, lady, not as writing a new commandment to you, but one which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another.
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
These things I command you, that you may love one another.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
Let brotherly love remain.
And above all things have fervent love for one another, because "love will cover a multitude of sins."
and with godliness brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.
Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and should love one another, just as He gave commandment.
If anyone claims, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how is it possible for him to love God whom he has not seen?
THE ELDER, To the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have come to know the truth,