3 John 1:5-14 ▼

5 Beloved, you are doing faithfully whatever you might work for the brothers, and they are strangers,

6 who testified of your love before the church, whom you will do well having sent forward worthily of God.

7 For they went out on behalf of the Name, receiving nothing from the Gentiles.

8 Therefore we ought to support such, so that we may be fellow workers in the truth.

9 I did write something to the church; but the one loving to be first among them, Diotrephes, does not welcome us.

10 Because of this, if I should come, I will bring to remembrance his works that he is doing, prattling against us with evil words; and not being satisfied with these, neither does he welcome the brothers himself, and he forbids those intending, and he casts them out of the church.

11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one doing good is of God; the one doing evil has not seen God.

12 Testimony has been given to Demetrius by all, and by the truth itself; and we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.

13 I had many things to write to you, but I do not want to write to you with ink and pen;

14 but I hope to see you soon, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.