¹⁸ `My' Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

¹⁵ If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,

¹⁶ and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?

⁹ Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

⁴¹ Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels:

⁴² for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;

⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

⁴⁴ Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me.

¹ I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

² with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

³ giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

¹ Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

² Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

¹³ For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only `use' not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

⁴ Love suffereth long, `and' is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

⁵ doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

⁶ rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷ beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

³¹ And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.

¹ My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

²² Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

¹⁵ but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, `even' Christ;

¹ The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;

² for the truth's sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever:

³ Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

⁴ I rejoice greatly that I have found `certain' of thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

⁵ And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

⁶ And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

⁷ For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, `even' they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

⁸ Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

⁹ Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

¹⁰ If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into `your' house, and give him no greeting:

¹¹ for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.

¹² Having many things to write unto you, I would not `write them' with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy may be made full.

¹³ The children of thine elect sister salute thee.

¹ The elder unto Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

² Beloved, I pray that in all things thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

³ For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare witness unto thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth.

⁴ Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

⁵ Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in whatsoever thou doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal;

⁶ who bare witness to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God:

⁷ because that for the sake of the Name they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

⁸ We therefore ought to welcome such, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth.

⁹ I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

¹⁰ Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that would he forbiddeth and casteth `them' out of the church.

¹¹ Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

¹² Demetrius hath the witness of all `men', and of the truth itself: yea, we also bear witness: and thou knowest that our witness is true.

¹³ I had many things to write unto thee, but I am unwilling to write `them' to thee with ink and pen:

¹⁴ but I hope shortly to see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace `be' unto thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.