Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Authority and example

⁹ I have written something to the assembly. But Diotrephes, who wants to be the most important person there, refuses to acknowledge us. ¹⁰ So, then, if I come, I will refer back to what he has done, and the slanderous words he has spoken against us. Not being satisfied with that, he doesn’t welcome family members himself; and, when others want to do so, he forbids them and throws them out of the assembly.

¹¹ Beloved, don’t imitate evil; imitate good! Someone who does good is from God; someone who does evil has not seen God. ¹² Demetrius has been well attested by everybody, and by the truth itself. We join in this testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.