I wish, my beloved, you may be as prosperous with regard to your health and other circumstances, as in what concerns your soul.

Beloved, you do faithfully what you perform for the brethren, and for the strangers.

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn't accept what we say.

For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, unjustly accusing us with wicked words and unjustified charges. And not satisfied with this, he refuses to receive the [missionary] brothers himself, and also forbids those who want to [welcome them] and puts them out of the church.

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

Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.