3. Grace be with you, mercy and peace, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and charity.
4. I have rejoiced greatly, for I have found of thy sons that they walk in the truth, as we have received the commandment from the Father.
5. 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.
6. And this is charity, that we walk after his commandment. And this is the commandment, That ye walk in him, as ye have heard from the beginning.