Living Oracles
1835 by George Campbell,
James MacKnight, and Philip Doddridge
3Jo 1:1 ¶ The elder, to Gaius, the beloved, whom I love in the truth.
3Jo 1:2 Beloved, I pray, that with respect to all things, you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
3Jo 1:3 ¶ For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came, and bore witness to your truth, even as you walk in truth.
3Jo 1:4 I have no greater joy than that which I have when I hear my children are walking in truth.
3Jo 1:5 Beloved, you do faithfully what you perform for the brethren, and for the strangers.
3Jo 1:6 These have borne testimony to your love, in the presence of the congregation; whom, if you help forward on their journey, in a manner worthy of God, you will do well.
3Jo 1:7 Because for [his] name’s sake, they went forth, receiving nothing from the Gentiles.
3Jo 1:8 We, therefore, ought to entertain such, that we may be joint laborers in the truth.
3Jo 1:9 ¶ I wrote to the congregation: but Diotrephes, who affects a pre–eminence among them, does not receive us.
3Jo 1:10 For this cause, when I come, I will bring his deeds to remembrance, which he practices––prating against us with malicious words; and, not content with this, he does not himself receive the brethren, and forbids them who would, and casts them out of the congregation.
3Jo 1:11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good, is of God; but he who does evil, has not seen God.
3Jo 1:12 ¶ Testimony is borne to Demetrius, by all, and by the truth itself; and we also bear testimony; and you know that our testimony is true.
3Jo 1:13 I have many things to write; but I do not incline to write them to you with pen and ink:
3Jo 1:14 for I hope immediately to see you, and so we shall speak face to face. Salute the friends by name.
