11For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
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This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
And 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.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-13)The apostle, having intimated that one mark of the devil’s children is hatred of the brethren, takes occasion thence, I. To recommend fraternal Christian love, and that from the excellence, or antiquity, or primariness of the injunction relating thereto: And this is the message (the errand or charge) which you heard from the beginning (this came among the principal parts of practical Christianity)…
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