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.

From the elder, to Gaius my dear brother, whom I love in truth.

Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers (even though they are strangers).

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not acknowledge us.