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¹ THE Elder, to my beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.² Our beloved; in all things, I pray for thee that thou mayest prosper and be in health, as thy soul doth prosper.

³ For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified concerning thy integrity, even as thou walkest in the truth.⁴ And I have no greater joy, than to hear that my children walk in the truth.⁵ Our beloved, thou doest in faith, what thou performest towards the brethren; and especially towards strangers,⁶ who have borne testimony to thy charity before the whole church, to whom thou doest good, as is pleasing to God.⁷ For they went forth in behalf of his name, taking nothing of the Gentiles.⁸ We therefore ought to receive such persons, that we may be aiders of the truth.

⁹ I was desirous of writing to the church; but he who loveth to be foremost among them, Diotrephes, receiveth us not.¹⁰ 10 Therefore, if he come, remember those his doings, that he treated us with malignant words; and this not sufficing him, he received not the brethren; and those who would receive [fn] , he prohibited, and even ejected them from the church. ¹¹ Our beloved, be not a follower of what is evil, but of what is good. He that doeth good, is of God; but he that doeth evil, hath not seen God.

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