1. The elder unto the well beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
2. Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
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.
4. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
5. Beloved, you do faithfully whatsoever you do for the brethren, and for strangers;
6. Who have borne witness of your love before the church: whom if you send forward on their journey in a godly manner, you shall do well:
7. Because for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.
8. We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellow helpers to the truth.
9. I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.