Dear friend, it is my prayer that everything is going well with you and that you are well; I know it is well with your soul.

For it makes me exceedingly happy to have some brothers come and testify to the truth of your life, for you are guided by truth.

I have no greater joy than these tidings, that I hear my own children are walking in the truth.

Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.

For they have started out for the sake of the cause, and they are accepting nothing from the heathen.

So we ought to support such men, to show that we are ready to co-operate with the truth.

Therefore if I come I will remember his works which he doth, with wicked words prating against us; and not content with these things, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those who are willing he hindereth, and casteth them out of the church.

Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.