For I am happy to have some brothers come and testify to the truth that is in you, since you are living by the truth.

I have no greater spiritual blessing than this, to hear that my children are living by the truth.

So we ought to show hospitality to such men, to prove that we cooperate with them for the truth.

So, if I come, I will remind you of what he is doing, how with malicious insinuations he is talking about me. Not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers himself, he interferes with those who want to do so, and tries to put them out of the church.

Demetrius has a good testimony from everybody and from truth itself; yea, from me too, and you know that my testimony to him is true.