1:4 I rejoiced greatly because I have found some ¹  of your children living according to the truth, ²  just as the Father commanded us. ³ 

1:5 But now ⁴  I ask you, lady (not as if I were ⁵  writing a new commandment ⁶  to you, but the one ⁷  we have had from the beginning), ⁸  that ⁹  we love one another. 1:6 (Now this is love: that we walk ¹⁰  according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus ¹¹  you should walk in it. ¹²