“But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another. (Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.”
— 2 John 1:5-6
Commandment and loving others seems parallel throughout John’s writings, whether gospel or letters.
John’s opponents had wrong view of Jesus, proto-Gnosticism, and some practical ways to identify were their hatred for believers and leaving the church. See 1 John 2 and 3.
Here John reemphasizes that these believers had heard from beginning (presumably from Jesus or apostles ministry) that sacrificial love was essential.
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