2 Beloved, in all things I pray that thou mayst prosper and be in health, as thy soul prospereth.
3 For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bore witness to thy truth, as thou walkest in truth.
4 I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children walk in the truth.
5 Beloved, thou doest a faithful thing whatever thou doest to the brethren, and that to strangers,
6 who bore witness of thy love before the church; whom if thou send forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, thou wilt do well.
7 For in behalf of the Name they went forth, taking nothing of the gentiles.
8 We therefore ought to sustain such persons, that we may be fellowworkers for the truth.
9 I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
10 Wherefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words; and not content therewith, he himself doth not receive the brethren, and those that would he forbiddeth, and casteth them out of the church.