9 I have written to the church {ekklēsia} about this \I have written something to the church/, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction.

10 So if I come, I will call attention to his malicious slander against us. And unsatisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers and forbids those who want to do so, even putting them out of the church {ekklēsias}.

3 John 1:9-10, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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