中译版圣经:

• 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。
• 新中译版圣经: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。
• 新世纪圣经:夫人哪，我现在请求你，我们要彼此相爱。我写给你的，不是一条新命令，而是我们从起初就有的。
• LCC:如今夫人哪，我请求你∶我们要彼此相爱；这并不是像写一条新的诫命给你，乃是一条我们从起初所领受的。
• TCB:所以，亲爱的夫人，我求你，我们要彼此相爱。我向你提的并不是一条新的命令，而是我们从起初就领受了的。
• 当代圣经:亲爱的姊妹，我并不是要给你甚麽新的命令，只不过要劝你一件事：我们大家要彼此相爱，这乃是我们从开头就已经领受了的命令。
• CSG:

英译版圣经:

• 新国际版圣经:And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.
• NRSV:But now, dear lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning, let us love one another.
• NASV:Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• 古老版圣经: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.
• ASV:And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• 基础英语版圣经:And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.
• DBY: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.
• 标准修订版圣经:And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• 直译圣经95版:Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• 直译圣经77版:And now I ask you, lady, not as writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• WEB:And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• YLT:and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

希伯来语圣经:

内容备注:

多语对照圣经中的一节平均而言是一句，包含有12个不同的英文译本，和6个中文译本，以及一个希伯来语本（圣经旧约使用希伯来语和亚兰语书写，新约用希腊语书写）

NIV:新国际版（New International Version，简称NIV）是一个当代英语圣经译本，也是目前在英语国家被最为广泛使用的圣经版本,适合个人研读之用的译本。
NCB: New Century Bible 《新世纪圣经》
LCC:(Library of Christian Classes）
CLB:当代圣经译本(The Chinese Living Bible, CLB)
KJV:詹姆士钦定本是近古英文,是现在所能见到的最老的英译本
BBE:基础英语供移民和儿童阅读
NRSV:是新标准修订版
NASB:用纯粹直译方法（Strictly Literal）的译本
BHS:希伯来语原文圣经

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• writing [´raitiŋ]   n.书写；写作；书法   (初中英语单词)
• beginning [bi´giniŋ]   n.开始，开端；起源   (初中英语单词)
• international [,intə´næʃənəl]   a.国际的，世界的   (初中英语单词)
• beseech [bi´si:tʃ]   v.恳求，哀求   (高中英语单词)
• commandment [kə´mɑ:ndmənt]   n.戒律；圣训   (英语四级单词)