2 Dearly beloved, I pray above all things that thou succeed and be in good health, as thy soul succeeds.
3 For I was greatly rejoiced, the brethren coming and testifying to thy truth, as thou walkest about in the truth.
4 I have no joy greater than these that I hear my children walking in truth.
5 Dearly beloved, thou doest faithfully whatever thou dost work for the brethren, and for strangers;
6 Who testified to thy love before the church: thou shalt do well, having sent them forward worthily of God.
7 For, for his name went they forth, receiving nothing from the nations.
8 Therefore ought we to receive such, that we might be workers together in the truth.
9 I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, seeking the superiority over them, receives us not.
10 Therefore, if I should come, I will put him in mind of his works which he does, talking silly against us with evil words: and not being satisfied in these, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and hinders those being willing, and casts out of the church.