3 John 1:1-10 ▼

1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!

2 Beloved, I desire you to prosper concerning all things, and to be in health, even as your soul prospers,

3 for I rejoiced exceedingly, brothers coming and testifying of the truth in you, even as you walk in truth;

4 I have no joy greater than these things, that I may hear of my children walking in truth.

5 Beloved, you act faithfully in whatever you may do toward the brothers and the one [among] strangers,

6 who testified of your love before an assembly, whom you will do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

7 because they went forth for [His] Name, receiving nothing from the nations;

8 we, then, ought to receive such, that we may become fellow-workers to the truth.

9 I wrote to the assembly, but he who is loving to be first among them—Diotrephes—does not receive us;

10 because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he does, talking nonsense against us with evil words; and not content with these, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and he forbids those intending [to receive them], and he casts [them] out of the assembly.