5Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.


In Context

2 for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

2 John 1:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.