I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us forever.

From the elder, to an elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth (and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth),

Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

Though I have many other things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come visit you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.