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  Third John

¹The elder unto Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. ²Beloved, I pray that in all things you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.

³For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare witness unto your truth, even as you walk in truth. ⁴Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. ⁵Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatsoever you do toward them that are brethren and strangers withal; ⁶who bare witness to your love before the church: whom you will do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God: ⁷because that for the sake of the Name they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. ⁸We therefore ought to welcome such, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth.

⁹I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not. ¹⁰Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he does, prating against us with wicked words: and not content therewith, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and them that he would forbid and casts them out of the church. ¹¹Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that does good is of God: he that does evil has not seen God.