Beloved, you did faithfully whatever you do to the brothers, and that to strangers,

who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

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

I had many things to write, but I did not want to write to thee by pen and ink.