Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new mitzvah, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
*This is my mitzvah, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
This is his mitzvah, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Yeshua the Messiah, and love one another, even as he commanded.
If a man says, *I love God,* and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
Let brotherly love continue.
Walk in love, even as Messiah also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, shalom, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
*I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;