3 John 1 — YLT
1Verse 1The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!Verse 2beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,Verse 3for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;Verse 4greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.Verse 5Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,Verse 6who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,Verse 7because for [His] name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;Verse 8we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.Verse 9I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them — Diotrephes — doth not receive us;Verse 10because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.Verse 11Beloved, 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;Verse 12to Demetrius testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also — we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true.Verse 13Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,Verse 14and I hope straightway to see thee, and mouth to mouth we shall speak. Peace to thee! salute thee do the friends; be saluting the friends by name.