The elder to an elect lady and her children whom I love in truth??nd not I only, but also all who know the truth??2 for the truth's sake which abides in us, and will be with us forever:

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.

Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

Having many things to write to you, I was not willing to write them with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you, and speak mouth to mouth, that your joy may be made full.