'Things' in the Bible

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

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.

I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: