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

⁵ Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

²¹ This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

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

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

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

⁸ And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

⁸ Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

³⁴ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

⁷ Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

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

² Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

²² Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, 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 unfeigned faith;

⁹ But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

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