What does 3 John 1:1-9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love ina the truth.
Beloved, I wishb above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;
Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey afterc a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.
We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpersd to the truth.
I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.