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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The elder, To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3It gave me great joy when some believers came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way in a manner that honors God. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So when I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone--and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I have much to write you, but I do not want to do so with pen and ink. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name. |
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