I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;

because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.

Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,