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¹ The Elder. To ye electe lady and hir childre whom I loue in the trueth: & not I onely, but all they also that haue knowne the trueth,² for the truthes sake which dwelleth in vs, and shalbe with vs for euer.³ Grace, mercy, and peace be with you fro the LORDE Iesus Christ ye sonne of the father in the trueth and in loue.⁴ I am greatly reioysed, that I haue founde amonge thy children, them that walke in ye trueth, as we haue receaued a commaundement of the father.

⁵ And now lady I beseke the (not as though I wrote a new commaundement vnto the, but the same which we haue had from the begynnynge) that we loue one another.⁶ And this is the loue, that we walke after his commaundementes. This is the commaundement (as ye haue herde fro the begynnynge) that we shulde walke therin.

⁷ For many disceauers are come in to the worlde, which confesse not yt Iesus Christ is come in the flesh: this is a disceauer and an Antechrist.⁸ Take hede to youre selues, that we lose not that which we haue wrought, but that we maye receaue a full rewarde.⁹ Whoso euer transgresseth, and abydeth not in the doctryne of Christ, hath not God: he that abydeth in ye doctryne of Christ, hath both the father and the sonne.

¹⁰ Yf eny man come vnto you, and brynge not this doctryne, receaue him not in to the house, nether salute him:¹¹ for he that saluteth him, is partaker of his euell dedes.

¹² I had many thinges to wryte vnto you: neuertheles I wolde not wryte wt papyre and ynke, but I trust to come vnto you, and to speake with you mouth mouth, that oure ioye maye be full.¹³ The children of thy electe sister salute the. Amen.