¹² `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

³⁴ `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

²¹ and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

²³ 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,

⁸ and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

¹⁰ in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

¹² and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

² 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,

¹¹ because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

¹² not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

¹³ Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

¹⁴ we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

¹⁵ Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

¹⁶ in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

¹⁷ and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

¹⁸ My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

⁷ Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;

⁸ again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

⁹ he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

¹⁰ he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;

⁸ And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

²² 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,

⁹ And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

³ We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;