3 John 1:4

4 maiorem horum non habeo gratiam quam ut audiam filios meos in veritate ambulantes

3 John 1:4 Meaning and Commentary

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy
Nothing that causes greater joy. The Vulgate Latin version reads "grace" or "thanks"; and then the sense is, that he had nothing to be more thankful for:

than to hear that my children walk in truth;
meaning his spiritual children, those whose conversion he had been the instrument of; and among these it seems Gaius was one.

3 John 1:4 In-Context

2 carissime de omnibus orationem facio prospere te ingredi et valere sicut prospere agit anima tua

3 gavisus sum valde venientibus fratribus et testimonium perhibentibus veritati tuae sicut tu in veritate ambulas

4 maiorem horum non habeo gratiam quam ut audiam filios meos in veritate ambulantes

5 carissime fideliter facis quicquid operaris in fratres et hoc in peregrinos

6 qui testimonium reddiderunt caritati tuae in conspectu ecclesiae quos bene facies deducens digne Deo