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 I was glad when brothers came and bore testimony to your truth, as indeed you are passing your life in truth.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are passing their lives in the truth.

Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in whatsoever thou doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal;

For these [traveling missionaries] went out for the sake of the Name [of Christ], accepting nothing [in the way of assistance] from the Gentiles.

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

So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.

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.