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I wrote to the Church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the first place among them, refuses to listen to us.
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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.