because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,
doth rise from the supper, and doth lay down his garments, and having taken a towel, he girded himself;
`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,
and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,
Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,
and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;
Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;
and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;
and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,