3 John 1:1-10 ▼

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

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

3 For I rejoiced exceedingly, when brethren came and testified to your truth, even as you walk in truth.

4 I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

5 Beloved, you do a faithful work , in whatsoever you do to the brethren, and that to strangers,

6 who testified to your love before the assembly; whom sending forward worthily of God, you will do well;

7 for on behalf of His name they went forth, taking nothing from the gentiles.

8 We ought, therefore, to welcome such persons , that we may become fellow-workers for the truth.

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

10 On this account, if I come, I will remember his works which he is doing, prating against us with evil words; and not content with these things, he neither himself receives the brethren, and those wishing to do so he forbids, and casts them out of the assembly.