1The elder, to beloved Gaius, whom I love in aletheia(truth).
2Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your psyche(soul).
3For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your aletheia(truth), just as you are walking in aletheia(truth).
4I have no greater chara(joy) than to hear that my children are walking in aletheia(truth).
5Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your service to the brothers, especially to strangers,
6who have testified to your love before the ekklesia(called-out community); you will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
7For they have gone out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the nations.
8We therefore ought to support such people, so that we may be fellow workers for the aletheia(truth).
9I have written something to the ekklesia(called-out community), but Diotrephes, who loves to have first place among them, does not acknowledge us.
10So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing — talking wicked nonsense against us; and not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the ekklesia(called-out community).
11Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good; whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
12Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the aletheia(truth) itself; we also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.
13I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
14I elpis(hope) to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. Eirene(Peace) be to you; the philoi(friends) greet you; greet the philoi(friends) by name.