Beloved, I pray that you may be in good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers in the truth.

So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping against us with evil words. And not satisfied with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.

Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself; and we add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.