who testified to your love before the assembly; whom sending forward worthily of God, you will do well;

I wrote to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have preeminence among them, receives us not.

On this account, if I come, I will remember his works which he is doing, prating against us with evil words; and not content with these things, he neither himself receives the brethren, and those wishing to do so he forbids, and casts them out of the assembly.