I wish, my beloved, you may be as prosperous with regard to your health and other circumstances, as in what concerns your soul.

Dearly beloved, you are acting faithfully in doing what you can for the brothers, especially as they are strangers.

I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say.

So, if I come, I will remind you of what he is doing, how with malicious insinuations he is talking about me. Not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers himself, he interferes with those who want to do so, and tries to put them out of the church.

Do not imitate what is evil, beloved, but that which is good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has never gazed on God.

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.