I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.
I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not acknowledge us.
I have many things to write to you, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink.
Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.