3 John 1:1-10 ▼

1 THE elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

2 Beloved, I pray above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.

3 For I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified to the truth that is in you, even as you walk in the truth.

4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.

5 Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do to the brethren, and to strangers,

6 who have testified to your love before the church: if you conduct these on their journey, in a manner worthy of God, you will do well:

7 for, on account of his name, they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

8 We, therefore, ought to receive such, that we may be fellow-helpers to the truth.

9 I wrote to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.

10 Therefore, if I come, I will remember his works which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content with these things, he does not himself receive the brethren, but both for bids those who are willing, and casts them out of the church.