To Gaius
The elder, to my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth. Dear friend, I pray that everything's going well with you and that you're keeping healthy, just as it's going well with your soul. It gave me great joy when some brothers turned up and told me how faithful you are to the truth — how you keep on walking in it. Nothing gives me greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
The elder, to my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
Dear friend, I pray that everything's going well with you and that you're keeping healthy, just as it's going well with your soul.
It gave me great joy when some brothers turned up and told me how faithful you are to the truth — how you keep on walking in it.
Nothing gives me greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Looking after travellers
Dear friend, you're doing a faithful thing in how you look after the brothers, even the ones who are strangers to you. They've told the church about your love. You'll do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. Because it was for the sake of the Name that they set out, taking nothing from the pagans. So we ought to look after people like this, so that we may work together for the truth.
Dear friend, you're doing a faithful thing in how you look after the brothers, even the ones who are strangers to you.
They've told the church about your love. You'll do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
Because it was for the sake of the Name that they set out, taking nothing from the pagans.
So we ought to look after people like this, so that we may work together for the truth.
Diotrephes
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves being in charge, won't have anything to do with us. So if I come, I'll bring up what he's doing — spreading malicious nonsense about us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers himself, and he stops those who want to, and puts them out of the church.
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves being in charge, won't have anything to do with us.
So if I come, I'll bring up what he's doing — spreading malicious nonsense about us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers himself, and he stops those who want to, and puts them out of the church.
Demetrius
Dear friend, don't copy what's bad, but what's good. Whoever does good is from God. Whoever does evil hasn't seen God. Everyone speaks well of Demetrius — and so does the truth itself. We speak well of him too, and you know our word is true.
Dear friend, don't copy what's bad, but what's good. Whoever does good is from God. Whoever does evil hasn't seen God.
Everyone speaks well of Demetrius — and so does the truth itself. We speak well of him too, and you know our word is true.
See you soon
I've got plenty to write to you, but I'd rather not do it with pen and ink. I'm hoping to see you soon, and then we'll talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.
I've got plenty to write to you, but I'd rather not do it with pen and ink.
I'm hoping to see you soon, and then we'll talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.