2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper concerning all things and be well, as your soul prospers.
3 I rejoice exceedingly, the brethren coming and witnessing to thy truth, as thou art walking about in truth.
4 I have no greater joy than this, that I may hear of my children walking about in truth.
5 Beloved, whatsoever faithful deed thou mayest do to the brethren, thou art also dispensing to the strangers,
6 who have witnessed to thy divine love before the church: whom you will do well, having sent forth worthily of God.
7 For the sake of his name they went out, receiving nothing from the Gentiles.
8 Therefore we ought to receive such, in order that we may be fellow-workers with the truth.
9 I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, loving the preeminence over them, does not receive us.
10 On account of this, if I may come, I will remember his works which he is doing, berating us with wicked speeches: and not content with these, he does not receive the brethren, and he prohibits them wishing to receive them, and casts them out of the church.