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Therefore we ought to be supporting such ones, in order that we may be[a] fellow-workers[b] for the truth.

Diotrephes Is Not Accepting Us. Beloved, Imitate The One Doing Good

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, the one loving-to-be-first[c] among them, is not accepting[d] us. 10 For this reason, if I come I will call-to-mind[e] his deeds which he is doing— talking-nonsense-about[f] us with malicious words. And not being content with these things, neither is he himself accepting the brothers. And he is forbidding and putting-out[g] of the church the ones wanting to do so.

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Footnotes

  1. 3 John 1:8 Or, become.
  2. 3 John 1:8 Or, co-workers.
  3. 3 John 1:9 Or, loving-to-have-preeminence.
  4. 3 John 1:9 Or, receiving.
  5. 3 John 1:10 Or, remember.
  6. 3 John 1:10 Or, more formally, bringing-unjustified-charges-against.
  7. 3 John 1:10 Or, expelling, driving-out.

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