3 John 1:3-13

3 For I ¹was very glad when ²brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you ³are walking in truth.

4 I have no greater joy than ^[a]this, to hear of ⁴my children ⁵walking in the truth.

5 Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever * you accomplish for the ⁶brethren, and ^[b]especially when they are ⁷strangers;

6 and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to ⁸send them on their way in a manner ⁹worthy of God.

7 For they went out for the sake of ¹⁰the Name, ¹¹accepting 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 ¹²be first among them, does not accept ^[f]what we say.

10 For this reason, ¹³if 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 ¹⁴receive the ¹⁵brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and ¹⁶puts them out of the church.

11 Beloved, ¹⁷do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. ¹⁸The one who does good is of God; ¹⁹the one who does evil has not seen God.

12 Demetrius ²⁰has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself; and we add our testimony, and ²¹you know that our testimony is true.

13 ²²I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink;

Cross References

• 1. 2 John 4
• 2. Acts 1:15; Galatians 6:10; 3 John 5, 10
• 3. 2 John 4
• 4. 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
• 5. 2 John 4
• 6. Acts 1:15; Galatians 6:10; 3 John 3, 10
• 7. Romans 12:13; Hebrews 13:2
• 8. Acts 15:3; Titus 3:13
• 9. Colossians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:12
• 10. John 15:21; Acts 5:41; Philippians 2:9
• 11. Acts 20:33, 35
• 12. 2 John 9
• 13. 2 John 12
• 14. 2 John 10; 3 John 5
• 15. Acts 1:15; Galatians 6:10; 3 John 3, 5
• 16. John 9:34
• 17. Psalms 34:14; Psalms 37:27
• 18. 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:10
• 19. 1 John 3:6
• 20. Acts 6:3; 1 Timothy 3:7
• 21. John 19:35; John 21:24
• 22. 2 John 12

Footnotes

• [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"