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¹ The Elder vnto the beloven Gayus whom I love in ye trueth.² Beloved I wisshe in all thinges that thou prosperedest and faredest well eve as thy soule prospereth.

³ I reioysed greatly when the brethren came and testified of the trueth that is in the how thou walkest in trouthe.⁴ I have no greater ioye then for to heare howe that my sonnes walke in veritie.⁵ Beloved thou doest faythfully what soever thou doest to the brethren and to straungers⁶ which bare witnes of thy love before all the congregacion. Which brethren whe thou bryngest forwardes on their iorney (as it besemeth god) thou shalt do well:⁷ because that for his names sake they went forth and toke nothinge of the gentyls.⁸ We therfore ought to receave soche that we also myght be helpers to the trueth.

⁹ I wrote vnto the congregacio: but Diotrephes which loveth to have the preeminence amoge them receaveth vs not.¹⁰ Wherfore yf I come I will declare his dedes which he doeth iestinge on vs with malicious wordes nether is therewith content. Not only he him silfe receaveth not the brethre: but also he forbiddeth them that wolde and thrusteth them out of the congregacion.¹¹ folowe not that which is evyll but that which is good. He that doeth well is of God: but he yt doeth evyll seith not God.

¹² Demetrius hath good reporte of all men and of the trueth: ye and we oure selves also beare recorde and ye knowe that oure recorde is true.¹³ I have many thinges to wryte: but I will not with ynke and penne wryte vnto the.¹⁴ For I trust I shall shortly se the and we shall speake mouth to mouth. Peace be with the. The lovers salute the. Grete the lovers by name.