1. The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!
2. beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,
3. for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;
4. greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.
5. Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,
6. who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,
7. because for [His] name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;
8. we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.