¹¹ For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

⁵ 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.

²¹ And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

⁵ And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

¹² This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

⁸ above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

⁸ Finally, `be' ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

³⁵ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

⁷ Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.

⁸ Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.

² and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

²² Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

⁵ But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

⁹ But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

² Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.