^2 (A)that you may receive her in the Lord ^(B)in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also.

²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such men in esteem;

Striving and Suffering for Christ

²⁷ Only ^(A)let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, ^(B)with one mind ^(C)striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Gaius Commended for Generosity

⁵ Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren ^[a]and for strangers, ⁶ who have borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you will do well, ⁷ because they went forth for His name’s sake, ^(A)taking nothing from the Gentiles. ⁸ We therefore ought to ^(B)receive^[b] such, that we may become fellow workers for the truth.

Diotrephes and Demetrius

⁹ I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. ¹⁰ Therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, ^(C)prating^[c] against us with malicious words. And not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the church.

¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and ^(A)does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him;

Philemon’s Obedience Encouraged

¹⁷ If then you count me as a partner, receive him as you would me.

¹² I am sending him ^[a]back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own ^[b]heart,

³ the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—

¹⁸ The Lord ^(A)grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord ^(B)in that Day—and you know very well how many ways he ^(C)ministered ^[a]to me at Ephesus.

^10 (A)but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.