# Beloved, I am

"You people whom I love, I am" 

# I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment that you have had

"I write to you to love one other, which is not a new thing to do but an old commandment that you have heard" 

# from the beginning

"from when you first believed in Christ" 

# The old commandment is the word that you heard

"The old commandment is the message that you heard"