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The senior unto the beloved gayus, whom I love in the trueth.
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Wel-beloved I wisshe in all thynges thatt thou prosperedest and faredest well, even as thy soule prospereth.
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I reioysed greatly when the brethren cam and testified off the trueth that is in the, howe thou in troth walkest.
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I have no gretter ioye then forto heare howe that my sonnes walke in veritie.
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Derely beloved thou doest faythfully whatt soever thou doest to the brethren, and to straungers,
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which 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:
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because that for his names sake they went forth, and toke nothynge of the gentyls.
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We therfore ought to receave soche, that we also myght be helpers to the trueth.
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I wrote unto the congregacion: but Diotrephes which loveth to have the preeminence amonge them, receaveth us not,
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wherfore 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.
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Derely 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.
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Demetrius 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.
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I have many thinges to wryte: But I willnot with pen and ynke wryte vnto the.
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For 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.