The .iii. pistle of S. Jhon.
3 John
Chapter 1
1The senior unto the beloved gayus, whom I love in the trueth. 2Wel-beloved I wisshe in all thynges thatt thou prosperedest and faredest well, even as thy soule prospereth. 3I reioysed greatly when the brethren cam and testified off the trueth that is in the, howe thou in troth walkest. 4I have no gretter ioye then forto heare howe that my sonnes walke in veritie. 5Derely beloved thou doest faythfully whatt soever thou doest to the brethren, and to straungers, 6which bare witnes of thy love before all the congregacion. Which brethren when thou bryngest forwardes on their iorney (as it besemet God) thou shalt do wele: 7because that for his names sake they went forth, and toke nothynge of the gentyls. 8We therfore ought to receave soche, that we also myght be helpers to the trueth. 9I wrote unto the congregacion: but Diotrephes which loveth to have the preeminence amonge them, receaveth us not, 10wherfore yf I come I will declare his dedes which he doeth iestynge on us with malicious wordes, nether is therewith content. Not only he hym silfe receaveth not the brethren: but also he forbiddeth them thatt wolde and thrusteth them out of the congregacion. 11Derely beloved countersait not that which is evyll but that which is good: He that doeth well is off God: but he that doeth evyll seith not God. 12Demetrius hath good reporte off all men, and of the trueth: Yee and we oure selves also beare recorde, and ye knowe that oure recorde is true. 13I have many thinges to wryte: But I willnot with pen and ynke wryte vnto the. 14For I trust I shall shortly se the, and we shall speake mouth to mouth. Peace be with the The lovers salute the. Grete the lovers by name.
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