²³ Gaius,^(A) whose hospitality I and the whole church here enjoy, sends you his greetings.

Erastus,^(B) who is the city’s director of public works, and our brother Quartus send you their greetings.

¹⁴ I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus^(A) and Gaius,^(B)

²² He sent two of his helpers,^(A) Timothy^(B) and Erastus,^(C) to Macedonia, while he stayed in the province of Asia^(D) a little longer.

¹ The elder,^(A)

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

² 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. ³ 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) 4} I have no greater joy than to hear that my children^(D) are walking in the truth.^(E)

⁵ Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters,^[a](F) even though they are strangers to you.^{(G) 6} They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way^(H) in a manner that honors^(I) God.

²⁰ Erastus^(A) stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus^(B) sick in Miletus.^(C)

⁴ He was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus^(A) and Secundus from Thessalonica,^(B) Gaius^(C) from Derbe, Timothy^(D) also, and Tychicus^(E) and Trophimus^(F) from the province of Asia.^(G)

²⁹ Soon the whole city was in an uproar. The people seized Gaius^(A) and Aristarchus,^(B) Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia,^(C) and all of them rushed into the theater together.