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The elder to [the] elect lady and her children, whom *I* love in truth, and not *I* only but also all who have known the truth,
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for the truth's sake which abides in us and shall be with us to eternity.
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Grace shall be with you, mercy, peace from God [the] Father, and from [the] Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
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I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.
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And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from [the] beginning, that we should love one another.
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And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, according as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye might walk in it.