2. I love you because of the truth that is alive in us. That truth will be with us forever.
3. God the Father and Jesus Christ his Son will give you grace, mercy and peace. Those blessings will be with us because we love the truth.
4. It has given me great joy to find some of your children living by the truth. That's just what the Father commanded us to do.
5. Dear lady, I'm not writing you a new command. I'm writing a command we've had from the beginning. I'm asking that we love one another.