3 John 1:1-9

1 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in ^[a] truth.

2 Beloved, I desire that in all things thou shouldest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.

3 For I rejoiced exceedingly when [the] brethren came and bore testimony to thy [holding fast the] truth, ^[b] even as *thou* walkest in truth.

4 I have no greater joy than these things that I hear of my children walking in the truth.

5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully [in] whatever thou mayest have wrought towards the brethren and that strangers,

6 (who have witnessed of thy love before [the] assembly,) in setting forward whom on their journey worthily of God, thou wilt do well;

7 for for the name have they gone forth, taking nothing of those of the nations.

8 *We* therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow-workers with the truth.

9 I wrote something to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the first place among them, receives us not.

Footnotes

• [a]. See 2John 1, Note.
• [b]. Lit. 'to thy truth.'