The elder,(A)

To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. It gave me great joy when some believers(B) came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it.(C) I have no greater joy than to hear that my children(D) are walking in the truth.(E)

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Greetings from John

From:[a] The Elder

To: My dear friend Gaius, whom I genuinely love.

Encouragement for Gaius

Dear friend, I pray that you are doing well in every way and that you are healthy, just as your soul is healthy. I was overjoyed when some brothers arrived and testified about your truthfulness and how you live according to the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living according to the truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 3 John 1:1 The Gk. lacks From

The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

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