Beloved,let us loveone another,for loveis from God;and everyonewho lovesis bornof Godand knowsGod.
"A newcommandmentI giveto you, that you loveoneanother,evenas I have lovedyou, that you alsoloveone another.
"Thisis eternallife,that they may knowYou, the onlytrue God,and JesusChristwhomYou have sent.
but ifanyonelovesGod,he is knownby Him.
For God,who said,"Lightshall shineout of darkness,"is the One whohas shonein our heartsto give the Lightof the knowledgeof the gloryof Godin the faceof Christ.
But nowthat you have come to knowGod,orratherto be knownby God,howis it that you turn backagainto the weakand worthlesselemental things,to whichyou desireto be enslavedall overagain?
But the fruitof the Spiritis love,joy,peace,patience,kindness,goodness,faithfulness,
"Moreover the LORDyour Godwill circumciseyour heartand the heartof your descendants,to lovethe LORDyour Godwith allyour heartand with allyour soul,sothat you may live.
For Godhas not givenus a spiritof timidity,but of powerand loveand discipline.
Since you have in obedienceto the truthpurifiedyour soulsfor a sincerelove of the brethren,ferventlyloveone anotherfrom the heart,
The one who loveshis brotherabidesin the Lightand there is nocause for stumblingin him.
Ifyou knowthat He is righteous,you knowthat everyonealsowho practicesrighteousnessis bornof Him.
By thiswe knowthat we have come to knowHim, ifwe keepHis commandments.
The one who says,"I have come to knowHim," and does not keepHis commandments,is a liar,and the truthis not in him;
Beloved,I am not writinga newcommandmentto you, but an oldcommandmentwhichyou have hadfrom the beginning;the oldcommandmentis the wordwhichyou have heard.
Noonewho is bornof Godpracticessin,becauseHis seedabidesin him; and he cannotsin,becausehe is bornof God.
Beloved,ifGodsolovedus, we alsooughtto loveone another.
No onehas seenGodat any time;ifwe loveone another,Godabidesin us, and His loveis perfectedin us.
We have come to knowand have believedthe lovewhichGodhasfor us. Godis love,and the one who abidesin loveabidesin God,and Godabidesin him.
Ifsomeonesays,"I loveGod,"and hateshis brother,he is a liar;for the one who does not lovehis brotherwhomhe has seen,cannotloveGodwhomhe has not seen.
The one who does not lovedoes not knowGod,for Godis love.
Whoeverbelievesthat Jesusis the Christis bornof God,and whoeverlovesthe Fatherlovesthe [child] bornof Him.
NowI askyou, lady,not as though [I were] writingto you a newcommandment,but the one whichwe have hadfrom the beginning,that we loveone another.