If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.
For God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," has shone within my heart to illuminate men with the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Christ.
but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?
Beloved, I am not writing you any new command, but an old command which you have had from the very beginning: the old command is the word you have heard.
And now I entreat you, Lady — not as though I were writing you any new command, it is the command which we have had from the very beginning — let us love one another.