The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and 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:

I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

For 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.

Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;