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The elder, to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth--and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth--
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because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us {forever}.
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Grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father in truth and love.
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{I was very glad} because I found [some] of your children walking in [the] truth, just as {the Father commanded us}.
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And now I ask you, lady (not as [if I were] writing a new commandment to you, but [one] that we have had from the beginning), that we should love one another.
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