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, ¹ 

Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, ¹  but receive a full reward. ² 

But now ¹  I ask you, lady (not as if I were ²  writing a new commandment ³  to you, but the one ⁴  we have had from the beginning), ⁵  that ⁶  we love one another.

Though I have many other ¹  things to write to you, I do not want to do so with ²  paper and ink, ³  but I hope to come visit you and speak face to face, ⁴  so that our joy may be complete. ⁵