2 Wellbeloved, I wish in all things that thou prosperedest and faredest well, even as thy soul prospereth.
3 I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, how thou in truth walkest.
4 I have no greater joy than for to hear how that my sons walk in verity.
5 Dearly beloved, thou dost faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers,
6 which bare witness of thy love before all the congregation. Which brethren, when thou bringest forwards on their journey - as it beseemeth God - thou shalt do well:
7 because that for his name's sake they went forth, and took nothing of the gentiles.
8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we also might be helpers to the truth.
9 I wrote unto the congregation: but Diotrephes which loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not,
10 wherefore if I come I will declare his deeds which he doeth, jesting on us with malicious words, neither is therewith content. Not only he himself receiveth not the brethren: but also he forbiddeth them that would, and thrusteth them out of the congregation.