Book 64 3 John
001:001 The Elder to his dear friend Gaius. Truly I love you.
001:002 My dear friend, I pray that you may in all respects prosper
and enjoy good health, just as your soul already prospers.
001:003 For it is an intense joy to me when brethren come and bear witness
to your fidelity to the truth--that you live in obedience
to the truth.
001:004 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living
in obedience to the truth.
001:005 My dear friend, you are acting faithfully in all your behaviour
towards the brethren, even when they are strangers to you.
001:006 They have testified, in the presence of the Church, to your love;
and you will do well to help them on their journey in a manner
worthy of your fellowship with God.
001:007 For it is for Christ that they have gone forth, accepting nothing
from the Gentiles.
001:008 It is therefore our duty to show hospitality to such men,
so that we may be fellow workers in promoting the truth.
001:009 I wrote to the Church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have
the first place among them, refuses to listen to us.
001:010 For this reason, if I come, I shall not forget his conduct,
nor his idle and mischievous talk against us. And he does
not stop there: he not only will not receive the brethren,
but those who desire to do this he hinders, and excludes them
from the Church.
001:011 My dear friend, do not follow wrong examples, but right ones.
He who habitually does what is right is a child of God:
he who habitually does what is wrong has not seen God.
001:012 The character of Demetrius has the approval of all men,
and of the truth itself. We also express our approval of it,