4. I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.
5. Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.
6. They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,
7. because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
8. We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
9. I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
10. Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
11. Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.