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.

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting,

(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.

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.