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The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!
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beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,
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for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;
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greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.
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Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,
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who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,
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because for [His] name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;
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we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.
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I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;
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because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.