3 John 1
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The Joys of Walking Out the Truth
1The elder. To Gaius the loved one, whom I love in truth:
2Loved ones, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.
3For I was overjoyed when some brethren came and testified of the truth in you—how you are walking in truth.
4I have no greater joy than this—to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
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5Loved ones, you are acting faithfully in whatever you do for the brethren and especially for strangers.
6They have testified to your love before Messiah’s community. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
7For on behalf of the Name they went out, accepting nothing from the pagans.
8Therefore we ought to support such people, so we might become co-workers in the truth.
The Lust for Power Condemned
9I wrote something to Messiah’s community, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t welcome us.
10So if I do come, I will call attention to what he is doing—slandering us with wicked words. Not even content with that, he refuses to welcome the brethren, and even forbids those who want to do so— throwing them out of the community!
Do Good Like God Does
11Loved ones, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
Virtue Is Honorable
12Demetrius has a good testimony from everyone, even from the truth itself. We also vouch for him—and you know that our testimony is true.
Fellowship Is Desirable
13I have much to write you, but I don’t want to write to you with ink and pen.
14But I hope to see you soon, and we will speak face to face.
15Shalom aleichem. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.
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3 John 1
1
1The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!
2beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,
3for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;
4greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.
5Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,
6who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,
7because for [His] name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;
8we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.
9I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them — Diotrephes — doth not receive us;
10because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.
11Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;
12to Demetrius testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also — we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true.
13Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,
14and I hope straightway to see thee, and mouth to mouth we shall speak. Peace to thee! salute thee do the friends; be saluting the friends by name.
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