My dear friend, I pray that you may in all respects prosper and enjoy good health, just as your soul already prospers.

For it is an intense joy to me when brethren come and bear witness to your fidelity to the truth--that you live in obedience to the truth.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living in obedience to the truth.

For it is for Christ that they have gone forth, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.

It is therefore our duty to show hospitality to such men, so that we may be fellow workers in promoting the truth.

The character of Demetrius has the approval of all men, and of the truth itself. We also express our approval of it, and you know that we only give our approval to that which is true.