2 Beloved, I pray, that with respect to all things, you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came, and bore witness to your truth, even as you walk in truth.
4 I have no greater joy than that which I have when I hear my children are walking in truth.
5 Beloved, you do faithfully what you perform for the brethren, and for the strangers.
6 These have borne testimony to your love, in the presence of the congregation; whom, if you help forward on their journey, in a manner worthy of God, you will do well.
7 Because for his name's sake, they went forth, receiving nothing from the Gentiles.
8 We, therefore, ought to entertain such, that we may be joint laborers in the truth.
9 I wrote to the congregation: but Diotrephes, who affects a pre-eminence among them, does not receive us.
10 For this cause, when I come, I will bring his deeds to remembrance, which he practices-prating against us with malicious words; and, not content with this, he does not himself receive the brethren, and forbids them who would, and casts them out of the congregation.