⁹ I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. ¹⁰ So when I come,^(A) I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers.^(B) He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.^(C)

¹¹ Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good.^(D) Anyone who does what is good is from God.^(E) Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.^(F)