3 John 1:4-14

4 I have no greater joy than ^[a]this, to hear of ¹my children ²walking in the truth.

5 Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever * you accomplish for the ³brethren, and ^[b]especially when they are ⁴strangers;

6 and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to ⁵send them on their way in a manner ⁶worthy of God.

7 For they went out for the sake of ⁷the Name, ⁸accepting nothing from the Gentiles.

8 Therefore we ought to ^[c]support such men, so that we may ^[d]be fellow workers ^[e]with the truth.

9 I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to ⁹be first among them, does not accept ^[f]what we say.

10 For this reason, ¹⁰if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, he himself does not ¹¹receive the ¹²brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and ¹³puts them out of the church.

11 Beloved, ¹⁴do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. ¹⁵The one who does good is of God; ¹⁶the one who does evil has not seen God.

12 Demetrius ¹⁷has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself; and we add our testimony, and ¹⁸you know that our testimony is true.

13 ¹⁹I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink;

14 but I hope to see you shortly, and we will speak face to face.

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1. 1 Corinthians 4:14; 2 Corinthians 6:13; Galatians 4:19; 1 Thessalonians 2:11; 1 Timothy 1:2; 2 Timothy 1:2; Philemon 10; 1 John 2:1
2. 2 John 4
3. Acts 1:15; Galatians 6:10; 3 John 3, 10
4. Romans 12:13; Hebrews 13:2
5. Acts 15:3; Titus 3:13
6. Colossians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:12
7. John 15:21; Acts 5:41; Philippians 2:9
8. Acts 20:33, 35
9. 2 John 9
10. 2 John 12
11. 2 John 10; 3 John 5
12. Acts 1:15; Galatians 6:10; 3 John 3, 5
13. John 9:34
14. Psalms 34:14; Psalms 37:27
15. 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:10
16. 1 John 3:6
17. Acts 6:3; 1 Timothy 3:7
18. John 19:35; John 21:24
19. 2 John 12

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[a]. Lit "these things, that I hear"
[b]. Lit "this"
[c]. Or "receive such men as guests"
[d]. Or "prove ourselves to be"
[e]. Or "for"
[f]. Lit "us"

3 John 1:4-14

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