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.
9. I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them-- Diotrephes--doth not receive us;