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;

³² and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

⁵ to whom we gave place in the way of subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

⁴ who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

²⁶ For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,

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:

²³ having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

¹ The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

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

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.

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.

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.

²¹ I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before `them' all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

¹ O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

⁷ Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

⁴ even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

⁵ having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

⁵ because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

³ remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

⁴ knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election,

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

¹⁴ whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

³ it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus;