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,
`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
`These things I command you, that ye love one another;
And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
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,
Let brotherly love remain;
and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;
because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,
and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,
if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?
The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,