Beloved, I earnestly pray, that thou mayst prosper and be in health, as thy soul prospereth.

And I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.

We ought therefore to receive such, that we may become fellow-laborers in the truth.

Therefore when I come, I will remember his deeds, prating against us with wicked words: and not content with these, he neither receiveth the brethren himself, nor suffers those that would; and casteth them out of the church.

Beloved, do not thou follow that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doth good is of God: but he, that doth evil, hath not seen God.

A good testimony is borne to Demetrius by all men, and by the truth itself: yea, and we also bear him like witness, and ye know that our testimony is true.