1The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.G4245G27G1050G3739G1473G25G1722G2252Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.G27G2172G4012G3956G4571G2137G2532G5198G2531G4675G5590G21373For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.G1063G5463G3029G80G2064G2532G3140G225G4675G2531G4771G4043G1722G2254I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.G2192G3756G3186G5130G5479G2443G191G1699G5043G4043G1722G225
Support and Opposition
5Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,G27G4160G4103G3739G1437G2038G1519G80G2532G1519G35816who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.G3739G3140G4675G26G1799G1577G3739G4311G516G2316G516G4160G25737For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.G1063G5228G846G3686G5228G1831G2983G3367G575G14848Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.G2249G3767G3784G618G5108G2443G1096G4904G2259I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.G1125G1577G235G1361G3588G5383G846G1926G2248G375610So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.G1223G5124G1437G2064G5279G846G2041G3739G4160G5396G2248G4190G3056G2532G3361G714G1909G5125G3777G1926G846G1926G80G2532G2967G1014G2532G1544G1537G157711Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.G27G3401G3361G2556G235G18G15G2076G1537G2316G1161G2554G3708G3756G3708G231612Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.G1216G3140G5259G3956G2532G5259G225G846G1161G2532G2249G3140G2532G1492G3754G2257G3141G2076G227
Final Greetings
13I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink.G2192G4183G1125G235G2309G3756G1223G3188G2532G2563G1125G467114I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.G1161G1679G1492G2112G1492G4571G2532G2980G4750G4314G4750G1515G4671G5384G782G4571G782G5384G2596G368615Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
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