I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.

My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;

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.