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

who have borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you will do well,

The Elder, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth:

Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;

keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

“I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first.