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¹ The Elder. To the beloued Gaius, whom I loue in the trueth.² My beloued, I wysshe in all thinges, that thou prospere and fare well euen as thy soule prospereth.

³ I reioysed greatly, whan the brethren came, and testified of the trueth that is in ye, how thou walkest in the trueth.⁴ I haue no greater ioye, the to heare that my childre walke in the trueth.⁵ My beloued, thou doest faithfully what so euer thou doest to the brethren and to straugers,⁶ which haue borne witnesse of thy loue before the congregacion: and thou hast done well that thou dyddest brynge them forwarde on their iourney, worthely before God.⁷ For because of his names sake they wente forth, and toke nothinge of the Heythen.⁸ We therfore oughte to receaue soch, that we mighte be helpers vnto the trueth.

⁹ I wrote to the congregacion, but Diotriphes, which loueth to haue the preemynence amonge them, receaued vs not.¹⁰ Wherfore, yf I come, I wil declare his dedes which he doeth, ieastinge vpo vs with malicious wordes: nether is he therwith cotent. Not onely he himselfe receaueth not the brethre, but also he forbyddeth them that wolde, and thrusteth them out of the congregacion.¹¹ My beloued, folowe not yt which is euell, but that which is good. He that doeth well, is of God: but he that doeth euell, seyth not God.

¹² Demetrius hath good reporte of all men, and of the trueth: yee and we oure selues also beare recorde, and ye knowe that oure recorde is true.¹³ I had many thinges to wryte, but I wolde not with ynke, and pen wryte vnto the.¹⁴ But I trust shortly to se the and so wyl we speake together mouth to mouth.

¹⁵ Peace be with the. The louers salute the. Grete the louers by name.