2 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.
3 For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, and how you are walking in truth.
4 I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
5 Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and especially when they are strangers;
6 and 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 went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.
8 Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
9 I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say.
10 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.