3 John 5–12

⁵Beloved, thou doest faithfully in whatever thou mayest have wrought towards the brethren and that strangers, ⁶(who have witnessed of thy love before the assembly,) in setting forward whom on their journey worthily of God, thou wilt do well; ⁷for for the name have they gone forth, taking nothing of those of the nations. ⁸We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow-workers with the truth.

⁹I wrote something to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the first place among them, receives us not. ¹⁰For this reason, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he does, babbling against us with wicked words; and not content with these, neither does he himself receive the brethren; and those who would he prevents, and casts them out of the assembly. ¹¹Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He that does good is of God. He that does evil has not seen God.

¹²Demetrius has witness borne to him by all, and by the truth itself; and we also bear witness, and thou knowest that our witness is true.