I, a ruler in the church, send word to the well loved Gaius, for whom I have true love.

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

Who have given witness to the church of your love for them: and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for, as is right for servants of God:

So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.

My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.