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This letter is from John, the elder. I am writing to Gaius, my dear friend, whom I love in the truth.
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Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit.
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Some of the traveling teachers recently returned and made me very happy by telling me about your faithfulness and that you are living according to the truth.
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I could have no greater joy than to hear that my children are following the truth.
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Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you.
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They have told the church here of your loving friendship. Please continue providing for such teachers in a manner that pleases God.
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For they are traveling for the Lord, and they accept nothing from people who are not believers.