| darby | |
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| 1. | The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. |
| 2. | Beloved, I desire that in all things thou shouldest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers. |
| 3. | For I rejoiced exceedingly when the brethren came and bore testimony to thy holding fast the truth, even as thou walkest in truth. |
| 4. | I have no greater joy than these things that I hear of my children walking in the truth. |
| 5. | Beloved, thou doest faithfully in whatever thou mayest have wrought towards the brethren and that strangers, |
| 6. | (who have witnessed of thy love before the assembly,) in setting forward whom on their journey worthily of God, thou wilt do well; |
| 7. | for for the name have they gone forth, taking nothing of those of the nations. |
| 8. | We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow-workers with the truth. |
| 9. | I wrote something to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the first place among them, receives us not. |
| 10. | For this reason, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he does, babbling against us with wicked words; and not content with these, neither does he himself receive the brethren; and those who would he prevents, and casts them out of the assembly. |
| 11. | 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. |
| 12. | Demetrius has witness borne to him by all, and by the truth itself; and we also bear witness, and thou knowest that our witness is true. |
| 13. | I had many things to write to thee, but I will not with ink and pen write to thee; |
| 14. | but I hope soon to see thee, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace be to thee. The friends greet thee. Greet the friends by name. |