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2 John 1:5
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
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.
And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.