¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.^(A)

¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.^(A)

²³ And this is his command: to believe^(A) in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,^(B) and to love one another as he commanded us.^(C)

⁵ And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning.^(A) I ask that we love one another.