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]

6 For this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; [4] this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, in which you should walk. [AD]