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.

Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you.

So when I come, 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. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.

Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone—and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true.