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The Elder vnto the beloven Gayus whom I love in ye trueth.
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Beloved I wisshe in all thinges that thou prosperedest and faredest well eve as thy soule prospereth.
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I reioysed greatly when the brethren came and testified of the trueth that is in the how thou walkest in trouthe.
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I have no greater ioye then for to heare howe that my sonnes walke in veritie.
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Beloved thou doest faythfully what soever thou doest to the brethren and to straungers
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which bare witnes of thy love before all the congregacion. Which brethren whe thou bryngest forwardes on their iorney (as it besemeth god) thou shalt do well:
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because that for his names sake they went forth and toke nothinge of the gentyls.
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We therfore ought to receave soche that we also myght be helpers to the trueth.