| The elder to the well-beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
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| 2. | Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
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| 3. | For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, even as you walk in the truth.
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| 4. | I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
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| 5. | Beloved, you faithfully do whatever you do to the brethren, and to strangers;
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| 6. | Who have borne witness of your charity before the church, whom if you bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, you shall do well,
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| 7. | Because for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
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| 8. | We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellow helpers to the truth.
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| 9. | I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.
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| 10. | Therefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words; and not content there, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and forbids them that would, and casts them out of the church.
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| 11. | Beloved, do not follow that which is evil, but that which is good. He that does good is of God, but he that does evil has not seen God.
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| 12. | Demetrius has good report of all men, and of the truth itself. Yea, and we also bear record; and you know that our record is true.
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| 13. | I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write to you,
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| 14. | But I trust I shall shortly see you, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to you. Our friends salute you. Greet the friends by name.
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