“This is My commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.
2 John 1:5 - Tree of Life Version Now I ask you, dear lady, that we love one another. It is not as though I am writing you a new command, but the one we have had from the beginning. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And now I beg you, lady (Cyria), not as if I were issuing a new charge (injunction or command), but [simply recalling to your mind] the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. American Standard Version (1901) And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. Common English Bible Now, dear friends, I am requesting that we love each other. It’s not as though I’m writing a new command to you, but it’s one we have had from the beginning. Catholic Public Domain Version And now I petition you, Lady, not as if writing a new commandment to you, but instead that commandment which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. |
“This is My commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.
But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
and walk in love, just as Messiah also loved us and gave Himself up for us as an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.
Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write you—for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
Above all, keep your love for one another constant, for “love covers a multitude of sins.”
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning—we should love one another.
Now this is His commandment—that we should believe in the name of His Son, Yeshua the Messiah, and love one another, just as He commanded us.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
The elder. To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth—and not I alone, but also all who have come to know the truth—