⁵Dear lady, I’m now requesting that we continue to love each other. It’s not as though I’m writing to give you a new commandment. Rather, from the beginning we were commanded to love each other.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

And now I ask you, dear 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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So now I ask 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.

NLTNew Living Translation

I am writing to remind you, dear friends, that we should love one another. This is not a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning.

LEBThe Lexham English 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.

KJV 1900King 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.

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