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1 ) The elder unto the 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 do faithfully whatsoever you do to the brethren, and to strangers,
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6 ) Which have borne witness of your love 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 that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of 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 unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.
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10 ) Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, babbling against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, 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, follow not 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 all of you know that our record is true.