3John:1

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* From the leader of the church people . I send greetings to my dear Gaius . I love you because you have Christ . * My dear brother , I ask God that you may be all right in every way and that your body may be well . I know that your soul is all right . * I was very happy when the brothers came and told me that you have been true . They said you are really living the right way . * Nothing can make me more happy than to hear that my children are living in the right way . My dear brother , when you help your Christian brothers in any way , even though you do not know them , you show that you do what you say you believe . * They have told the people of the church here how you showed your love to them . Please send them on their way as God would have you do . * They went out to do Christs work . And they have not taken any help from people who do not believe in God . * So we should help such men with what they need . Then we are doing our part to tell the true message . I wrote a letter to the people of the church . But Diotrephes wants to be the leader . He will not listen to us . * So if I come , I will show what he is doing . He is saying wrong things about us . And that is not all . He does not take our brothers into his own home . And he stops other people who want to take them in . He will not let them be church members any longer . * My dear brother , do not do the wrong things people do , but do the good things people do . Anyone who does good things belongs to God . Anyone who does wrong things has never seen God . * Everyone says Demetrius is a good man . All this is true . We say the same thing too . And you know that what we say is true . * I have much to write to you . But I do not want to write to you with pen and ink . * I hope to see you very soon . Then we will talk together . * May God give you peace . Our friends greet you . Greet everyone of my friends . * missing fehlt /missing

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