Study Desk

I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.

Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

And 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.

And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.