The Elder, to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
Beloved, I pray that in all respects you are doing well and that you are in good health, just as it is well with your soul.
For I rejoiced greatly when brothers and sisters came and testified to your faithfulness to the truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.
I have no greater joy than this: that I hear my children are walking in the truth.
Support and Opposition
Beloved, you are doing a faithful thing in whatever you accomplish for the brothers and sisters, even when they are strangers.
They have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
For they went out on behalf of the Name, receiving nothing from the Gentiles.
Therefore we have an obligation to support people like these so that we become fellow workers in the truth.
I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not receive us.
Therefore, when I come, I will call attention to the works that he is doing, falsely accusing us with malicious words. And not being content with that, he himself does not receive the brothers and sisters, and he stops those who intend to receive them and throws them out of the church.
Beloved, do not imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. The one who does what is good is of God, the one who does evil has not seen God.
Demetrius has received a favorable testimony by everyone and by the truth itself, and we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.
Final Greetings
I have many things to write to you, but I do not want to write them to you with ink and pen.
Instead, I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.
Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.