3 John 1:1-10 ▼

1 The elder vnto ye beloued Gaius, whom I loue in the trueth.

2 Beloued, I wishe in all thynges that thou prosperedst and faredst well, euen as thy soule prospereth.

3 For I reioyced greatly, when the brethren came & testified of the trueth that is in thee, how thou walkest in ye trueth.

4 I haue no greater ioy, the for to heare how that my sonnes walke in veritie.

5 Beloued, thou doest faythfully whatsoeuer thou doest to the brethren, and to straungers,

6 Which beare witnesse of thy loue before the Churche. Which brethren, yf thou bryng forwardes of their iourney after a godly sorte, thou shalt do well.

7 Because that for his names sake they went foorth, and toke nothyng of the gentiles.

8 We therfore ought to receaue such, that we myght be helpers to the trueth.

9 I wrote vnto the Churche: but Diotrephes which loueth to haue the preeminence among the, receaueth vs not.

10 Wherfore yf I come, I wyll declare his deedes which he doth, iestyng on vs with malicious wordes, neither is therwith content: not only he hym selfe receaueth not the brethren: but also he forbiddeth the that woulde, and thrusteth them out of the Churche.