4. I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.
5. But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.
6. (Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.