• 1:1The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truthfulness.
• 1:2Beloved, concerning all things I wish that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
• 1:3For I rejoiced greatly at the brothers' coming and testifying to your steadfastness in the truth, even as you walk in truth.
• 1:4I have no greater joy than these things, that I hear that my children are walking in the truth.
• 1:5Beloved, you do faithfully in whatever you have wrought for the brothers, and this for strangers,
• 1:6Who testified to your love before the church; whom you will do well to send forward in a manner worthy of God;
• 1:7For on behalf of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
• 1:8We therefore ought to support such ones that we may become fellow workers in the truth.
• 1:9I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not receive us.
• 1:10For this reason, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he does, babbling against us with evil words; and not being satisfied with these, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those intending to do so he forbids and casts out of the church.
• 1:11Beloved, do not imitate the evil, but the good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
• 1:12To Demetrius testimony has been borne by all and by the truth itself; and we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.
• 1:13I had many things to write to you, but I do not want to write to you with ink and pen;
• 1:14But I hope to see you shortly, and we will speak face to face. Peace to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.