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{\MT THE THIRD EPISTLE OF JOHN


\par }\OneChap {\PP \VerseOne{1}The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!

\VS{2}beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,

\VS{3}for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;

\VS{4}greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

\VS{5}Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,

\VS{6}who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

\VS{7}because for [His] name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;

\VS{8}we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.

\VS{9}I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them — Diotrephes — doth not receive us;

\VS{10}because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.

\VS{11}Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

\VS{12}to Demetrius testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also — we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true.

\VS{13}Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,

\VS{14}and I hope straightway to see thee, and mouth to mouth we shall speak. Peace to thee! salute thee do the friends; be saluting the friends by name.


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