The Third Letter of John
1:1 I, a ruler in the church, send word to the well loved Gaius,
for whom I have true love.
1:2 My loved one, it is my prayer that you may do well in all
things, and be healthy in body, even as your soul does well.
1:3 For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and
gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in
the true way.
1:4 I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are
walking in the true way.
1:5 My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to
those brothers who come from other places;
1:6 Who have given witness to the church of your love for them:
and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for,
as is right for servants of God:
1:7 For they went out for love of the Name, taking nothing from
the Gentiles.
1:8 So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that
we may take our part in the work of the true faith.
1:9 I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire
is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us
there.
1:10 So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does,
talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not
enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those
who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting
them out of the church if they do.
1:11 My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is
good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen
God.
1:12 Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true:
and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our
witness is true.
1:13 I had much to say to you, but it is not my purpose to put
it all down with ink and pen:
1:14 But I am hoping to see you in a short time, and to have
talk with you face to face. May you have peace. Your friends
here send you their love. Give my love to our friends by name.