²⁴ As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning^(A) remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.^(B)

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¹¹ For this is the message you heard^(A) from the beginning:^(B) We should love one another.^(C)

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)

²¹ And he has given us this command:^(A) Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.^(B)

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.

⁶ And this is love:^(A) that we walk in obedience to his commands.^(B) As you have heard from the beginning,^(C) his command is that you walk in love.