But now 1 I ask you, lady (not as if I were 2 writing a new commandment 3 to you, but the one 4 we have had from the beginning), 5 that 6 we love one another.
From 1 the elder, 2 to an elect lady 3 and her children, whom I love in truth 4 (and not I alone, but also all those 5 who know the truth),