Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.
New American Standard Bible
Now I ask you, lady,
King James Version
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Holman Bible
So now I urge you, dear lady—not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
International Standard Version
Dear lady, I am now requesting of you that we all continue to love one another. It is not as though I am writing to give you a new commandment, but one that we have had from the beginning.
A Conservative Version
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but what we had from the beginning, that we would love each other.
American Standard Version
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Amplified
Now I ask you, lady, not as if I were writing to you a new commandment, but [simply reminding you of] the one which we have had from the beginning, that we
An Understandable Version
And now I ask you, lady [See verse 1], not as though writing a new commandment to you, but [I wanted to remind you of] one that we had [heard] from the beginning [of Christ's ministry]: [It is] that we should love one another.
Anderson New Testament
And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Common New Testament
And now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Daniel Mace New Testament
and now, my lady, I beg our love may be mutual, since what I write, is no new prescription, but what was originally enjoin'd.
Darby Translation
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
And now I beseech you, Cyria, not as writing to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Godbey New Testament
And now I entreat thee, O Cyria, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another with divine love.
Goodspeed New Testament
And now I beg you, my lady??ot as though I were writing you any new command, but one which we have had from the beginning??et us love one another.
John Wesley New Testament
And now I beseech thee, Kuria, (not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we had from the beginning) that we may love one another.
Julia Smith Translation
And now I entreat thee, mistress, not as writing a new command, but what we had from the beginning, that we should love one another.
King James 2000
And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And now I ask you, lady (not as [if I were] writing a new commandment to you, but [one] that we have had from the beginning), that we should love one another.
Modern King James verseion
And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And now beseech I thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that same, which we had from the beginning: that we should love one another.
Moffatt New Testament
And now I entreat you, Lady ??not as though I were writing you any new command, it is the command which we have had from the very beginning ??let us love one another.
Montgomery New Testament
And now I am entreating you, Lady, not as though I were writing some new commandment to you, but one which we have had from the beginning, let us love one another.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Noyes New Testament
And now I beseech thee, Cyria, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Sawyer New Testament
And now I beseech you, Curia, not as if writing a new commandment to you, but [one] which we had from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And now, I pray you, Lady--not as though I were writing a new command for you; no, it is the command which we had from the first--Let us love one another.
Webster
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Weymouth New Testament
And now, dear lady, I pray you--writing to you, as I do, not a new command, but the one which we have had from the very beginning--let us love one another.
Williams New Testament
And now I beg you, my lady, not as though I were writing you a new command, but one which we had from the beginning, that we continue to love one another.
World English Bible
Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Worrell New Testament
And now I beseech you, lady, not as writing a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Worsley New Testament
And now I beseech thee, Lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another.
Youngs Literal Translation
and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,
Interlinear
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 John 1:5
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Truth And Deception
4 It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father. 5 And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another. 6 And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.
Cross References
1 John 3:11
Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
John 13:34-35
I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.
John 15:12
This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
Ephesians 5:2
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;
Hebrews 13:1
Go on loving your brothers in the faith.
1 Peter 1:22-23
And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
1 Peter 4:8
And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:
2 Peter 1:7
And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
1 John 2:7-8
My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.
1 John 3:14-18
We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
1 John 3:23
And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.
1 John 4:7-12
My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
1 John 4:20
If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?