¹² This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.^{(A) 13 [a]}No one has greater love than this,^(B) to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

¹⁷ This I command you: love one another.^(A)

The World’s Hatred.^[a]

¹⁸ Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.^(A)

Mutual Charity. ⁹ On the subject of mutual charity you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.^(A)

⁷ Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to you but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.^{(A) 8} And yet I do write a new commandment to you, which holds true in him and among you,^[a] for the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.^{(B) 9} Whoever says he is in the light, yet hates his brother, is still in the darkness.^{(C) 10} Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him to cause a fall.^(D)

²³ And his commandment is this: we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us.^(A)

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.^(A)