2 Dear friend, I pray you may prosper concerning everything and be healthy, just as your soul prospers.
3 For I rejoiced exceedingly [when the] brothers came and testified [to] your truth, just as you are walking in [the] truth.
4 I have no greater joy than this: that I hear my children are walking in the truth.
5 Dear friend, you act faithfully [in] whatever you do for the brothers, {even though they are strangers}.
6 They have testified [to] your love before the church; you will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
7 For they have gone out on behalf of the name, accepting nothing from the pagans.
8 Therefore we ought to support such [people], so that we become fellow workers with [the] truth.
9 I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who wants to be first [among] them, does not acknowledge us.
10 Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to {the deeds he is doing}, disparaging us with evil words. And not being content with these, he does not receive the brothers himself, and he hinders those wanting [to do so] and throws [them] out of the church.