3 Grace, mercy, and peace [2] will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son in truth and love.

4 I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children [3] walking in the truth just as we were commanded by the Father. [AB]

5 But now, Lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing a new commandment but the one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another. [AC]