Dear friend, I pray that you are doing well in every way and that you are healthy, just as your soul is healthy.

For I rejoiced exceedingly [when the] brothers came and testified [to] your truth, just as you are walking in [the] truth.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my [spiritual] children are living [their lives] in the truth.

Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in whatsoever thou doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal;

For these [traveling missionaries] went out for the sake of the Name [of Christ], accepting nothing [in the way of assistance] from the Gentiles.

hence we are bound to support such men, to prove ourselves allies of the Truth.

So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.

Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.