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2 John 1:5
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2 John 1:5 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
2 John 1:5 in other translations
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
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In context
2 For the sake of the truth which dwelleth in us and shall be with us for ever.
3 Grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Christ Jesus the Son of the Father: in truth and charity.
4 I was exceeding glad that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
6 And this is charity: That we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment that, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in the same:
7 For many seducers are gone out into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a seducer and an antichrist.
8 Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have wrought: but that you may receive a full reward.
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