Chapter 7
the elder unto the well-beloved gaius whom i love in the truth beloved i wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy soul prospereth for i rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee even as thou walkest in the truth i have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth beloved thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren and its strangers which have borne witness of thy charity before the church whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort thou shalt do well because that for his name's sake they went forth taking nothing of the gentiles we therefore ought to receive such that we might be fellow-helpers to the truth i wrote unto the church but diatropes who loveth to have the preeminence among them receiveth us not wherefore if i come i will remember his deeds which he doeth prating against us with malicious words
and not content therewith neither doth he himself receive the brethren and forbiddeth them that would and casteth them out of the church beloved follow not that which is evil but that which is good he that doeth good is of god but he that doeth evil hath not seen god demetrius hath a good report of all men and of the truth itself yea and we also bear record and ye know that our record is true i had many things to write but i will not with ink and pen write unto thee but i trust i shall shortly see thee and we shall speak face to face peace be to thee our friends salute thee greet the friends by name this ends the third epistle of john
