For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came, and bore witness to your truth, even as you walk in truth.

I have no greater joy than that which I have when I hear my children are walking in truth.

For this cause, when I come, I will bring his deeds to remembrance, which he practices-prating against us with malicious words; and, not content with this, he does not himself receive the brethren, and forbids them who would, and casts them out of the congregation.