The elder, to Gaius, the beloved, whom I love in the truth.

These have borne testimony to your love, in the presence of the congregation; whom, if you help forward on their journey, in a manner worthy of God, you will do well.

I wrote to the congregation: but Diotrephes, who affects a pre-eminence among them, does not receive us.

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.

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good, is of God; but he who does evil, has not seen God.