- 1:5 夫人阿，我现在请求你，我们要彼此相爱；我写给你的并不是一条新诫命，乃是我们从起初就有的诫命。
- 1:5 And now I ask you, lady, not as writing a new commandment to you but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
- 1:5 太太阿、我现在劝你、我们大家要彼此相爱，这并不是我写一条新命令给你、乃是我们从起初所受的命令。
- 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from [ the ] beginning, that we should love one another.
- 1:5 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 .