From the elder, to Gaius my dear brother, whom I love in truth.

For I was greatly pleased when [some of the] brothers came [from time to time] and testified to your [faithfulness to the] truth [of the gospel message], that is, how you are walking in truth.

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to hear from time to time that the lives of my Children are guided by the Truth.

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

For they went forth on behalf of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

Do them when I come I will recall to mind the deeds which he is doing, prating against me with wicked words. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to receive the brothers, forbids those that would receive them, and excommunicates them from the church.

Beloved, do not imitate the bad, but the good. He who does good is from God, but he who does evil has not seen God.

Demetrius has a good testimony from everybody and from truth itself; yea, from me too, and you know that my testimony to him is true.