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.

I know of no greater blessing than hearing that my children are being guided by the truth.

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 bring up the things that he is doing, and how he is maliciously accusing me. Not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers himself, and he is interfering with those who want to do so, and has them put out of the church.

Everybody testifies to Demetrius; the truth itself does; I testify to him too, and you know that my testimony to him is true.