3 John 1

1 The senior unto the beloved gayus, whom I love in the trueth. 2 Wel-beloved I wisshe in all thynges thatt thou prosperedest and faredest well, even as thy soule prospereth. 3 I reioysed greatly when the brethren cam and testified off the trueth that is in the, howe thou in troth walkest. 4 I have no gretter ioye then forto heare howe that my sonnes walke in veritie. 5 Derely beloved thou doest faythfully whatt soever thou doest to the brethren, and to straungers, 6 which bare witnes of thy love before all the congregacion. Which brethren when thou bryngest forwardes on their iorney (as it besemet God) thou shalt do wele: 7 because that for his names sake they went forth, and toke nothynge of the gentyls. 8 We therfore ought to receave soche, that we also myght be helpers to the trueth. 9 I wrote unto the congregacion: but Diotrephes which loveth to have the preeminence amonge them, receaveth us not, 10 wherfore yf I come I will declare his dedes which he doeth iestynge on us with malicious wordes, nether is therewith content. Not only he hym silfe receaveth not the brethren: but also he forbiddeth them thatt wolde and thrusteth them out of the congregacion. 11 Derely beloved countersait not that which is evyll but that which is good: He that doeth well is off God: but he that doeth evyll seith not God. 12 Demetrius hath good reporte off all men, and of the trueth: Yee and we oure selves also beare recorde, and ye knowe that oure recorde is true. 13 I have many thinges to wryte: But I willnot with pen and ynke wryte vnto the. 14 For I trust I shall shortly se the, and we shall speake mouth to mouth. Peace be with the The lovers salute the. Grete the lovers by name.