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1 The elder✽ to the dearly loved Gaius✽ whom I love in the truth✽.
2 ✽Dear friend, above everything I want you to prosper and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 3 For I greatly rejoiced✽ when the brethren✽ came and testified about the truth that is in you, just as you are walking in the truth✽✽. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children✽ are walking in truth.
5 Dear friend, you are doing faithfully✽ whatever you do for the brethren, and for strangers. 6 They have testified before the church about your love.✽ If you bring them forward on their journey✽ in a godly way, you will do well✽; 7 because they went forth for his name’s sake✽, taking nothing from the Gentiles✽. 8 Therefore we ought to receive such, so that we might be helpers together for the truth✽.
9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes✽, who loves to have the preeminence among them, will not receive us. 10 So, if I come, I will remember the deeds which he does, chattering against us✽ with malicious words. And not content with that, he does not receive the brethren himself, and forbids those who want to do so, and puts them out of the church✽.
11 Dear friend, do not follow what is evil, but what is good✽. He who does good is of God✽, but he who does✽ evil has not seen God.
12 All men speak well of Demetrius, and the truth itself✽ does also. Yes, and we also testify for him; and you know that our testimony is true.
13 I had many things to write, but I will not write to you with ink and pen. 14 But I hope to see you soon, and we will speak face to face. 15 Peace be to yo
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