"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

"Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. My Father will love those who love me; I too will love them and reveal myself to them."

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

And you are my friends if you do what I command you.

Be under obligation to no one---the only obligation you have is to love one another. Whoever does this has obeyed the Law.

The commandments, "Do not commit adultery; do not commit murder; do not steal; do not desire what belongs to someone else"---all these, and any others besides, are summed up in the one command, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."

As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.

For the whole Law is summed up in one commandment: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."

For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us,

He hears us whenever we ask him; and since we know this is true, we know also that he gives us what we ask from him.

And so I ask you, dear Lady: let us all love one another. This is no new command I am writing you; it is the command which we have had from the beginning.

Be sure, then, to keep in your hearts the message you heard from the beginning. If you keep that message, then you will always live in union with the Son and the Father.