For it is an intense joy to me when brethren come and bear witness to your fidelity to the truth--that you live in obedience to the truth.

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

Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.