3John:1

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* The Elder to his dear friend Gaius . Truly I love you . * My dear friend , I pray that you may in all respects prosper and enjoy good health , just as your soul already prospers . * For it is an intense joy to me when brethren come and bear witness to your fidelity to the truth –that you live in obedience to the truth . * I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living in obedience to the truth . * My dear friend , you are acting faithfully in all your behaviour towards the brethren , even when they are strangers to you . * They have testified , in the presence of the Church , to your love ; and you will do well to help them on their journey in a manner worthy of your fellowship with God . * For it is for Christ that they have gone forth , accepting nothing from the Gentiles . * It is therefore our duty to show hospitality to such men , so that we may be fellow workers in promoting the truth . * I wrote to the Church , but Diotrephes , who loves to have the first place among them , refuses to listen to us . * For this reason , if I come , I shall not forget his conduct , nor his idle and mischievous talk against us . And he does not stop there : he not only will not receive the brethren , but those who desire to do this he hinders , and excludes them from the Church . * My dear friend , do not follow wrong examples , but right ones . He who habitually does what is right is a child of God : he who habitually does what is wrong has not seen God . * The character of Demetrius has the approval of all men , and of the truth itself . We also express our approval of it , and you know that we only give our approval to that which is true . * I have a great deal to say to you , but I do not wish to go on writing it with ink and pen . * But I hope to see you very soon , and then we will speak face to face . Peace be with you . Our friends send greetings to you . Greet our friends individually .

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