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3 John 1

New International Reader's Version NIRV

1 I, the elder, am writing this letter. I am sending it to you, my dear friend Gaius. I love you because of the truth.

2 Dear friend, I know that your spiritual life is going well. I pray that you also may enjoy good health. And I pray that everything else may go well with you.

3 Some believers came to me and told me that you are faithful to the truth. They told me that you continue to live by it. That gave me great joy.

4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living by the truth.

5 Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the believers. You are faithful even though they are strangers to you.

6 They have told the church about your love. Please help them by sending them on their way in a manner that honors God.

7 They started on their journey to serve Jesus Christ. They didn't receive any help from those who aren't believers.

8 So we should welcome people like them. We should work together with them for the truth.

9 I wrote to the church. But Diotrephes won't have anything to do with us. He loves to be the first in everything.

10 So if I come, I will point out what he is doing. He is saying evil things about us to others. Even that doesn't satisfy him. He refuses to welcome other believers. He also keeps others from welcoming them. In fact, he throws them out of the church.

11 Dear friend, don't be like those who do evil. Be like those who do good. Anyone who does what is good belongs to God. Anyone who does what is evil hasn't really seen or known God.

12 Everyone says good things about Demetrius. He lives in keeping with the truth. We also say good things about him. And you know that our witness is true.

13 I have a lot to write to you. But I don't want to write with pen and ink.

14 I hope I can see you soon. Then we can talk face to face. May you have peace. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.

Wycliffe WYC

1 The elder man to Gaius, most dear brother [most dear], whom I love in truth.

2 Most dear brother, of all things I make prayer, that thou enter, and fare wellfully, as thy soul doeth wellfully. [+Most dear, of all things I make prayer, that thou enter, and fare wellsomely, as thy soul fareth wellsomely.]

3 I joyed [full] greatly, for brethren came, and bare witnessing to thy truth, as thou walkest in truth.

4 I have not more grace of these things, than that I hear that my sons walk in truth.

5 Most dear brother, thou doest faithfully, whatever thou workest in brethren [Most dear, thou doest faithfully, whatever thou workest into brethren], and that into pilgrims,

6 which yielded witnessing to thy charity, in the sight of the church; which thou leadest forth [whom thou leadest forth], and doest well-worthily to God.

7 For they went forth for his name, and took nothing of heathen men. [Soothly for his name they went forth, nothing taking of heathen men.]

8 Therefore we owe to receive such, that we be even-workers of truth.

9 I had written peradventure to the church, but this Diotrephes, that loveth to bear primacy in them [that loveth for to bear primacy, or chief places, in them], receiveth not us.

10 For this thing, if I shall come, I shall admonish his works, which he doeth, chiding against us with evil words [+garring, or chiding/chattering against us with evil words]. And as if these things suffice not to him, neither he receiveth brethren, and forbiddeth them that receive, and putteth out of the church [and casteth out of the church].

11 Most dear brother [Most dear], do not thou follow evil thing, but that that is good thing. He that doeth well, is of God; he that doeth evil, seeth not God.

12 Witnessing is yielded to Demetrius of all men, and of truth itself; but also we bear witnessing, and thou knowest, that our witnessing is true.

13 I had many things to write to thee, but I would not write to thee by ink and pen.

14 For I hope soon to see thee, and we shall speak mouth to mouth. Peace be to thee. Friends greet thee well. Greet thou well friends by name.