And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
This is my command: Love each other.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
The elder, To the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth—