3 John 1:3-8

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.

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

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"