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4 I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father.
5 And now I ask you, lady, not as writing a new commandment to you, but one which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another.
5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
6 This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
6 And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.