I rejoiced exceedingly that I found your children walking in the truth as we received commandment from the Father.

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.

And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not the labor which you performed, but receive a full reward.

Every one who goes beyond, and continues not in the doctrine of Christ, is without God. He that continues in the doctrine has both the Son and the Father.

for he that salutes him is a partaker of his evil works.

Having many things to write, I do not wish to write with paper and ink, but I hope to be with you and to speak face to face, that our joy may be full.