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3 John 1 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:1 - I, a ruler in the church, send word to the well loved Gaius, for whom I have true love.

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Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:2 - My loved one, it is my prayer that you may do well in all things, and be healthy in body, even as your soul does well.

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Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:3 - For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.

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Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:4 - I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.

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Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:5 - My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;

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Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:6 - Who have given witness to the church of your love for them: and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for, as is right for servants of God:

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Unchecked Copy Box 3Jo 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:7 - For they went out for love of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:8 - So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith.

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Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:9 - I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 3Jo 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:10 - So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.

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Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:11 - My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 3Jo 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:12 - Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.

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Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:13 - I had much to say to you, but it is not my purpose to put it all down with ink and pen:

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Unchecked Copy Box 3Jo 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:14 - But I am hoping to see you in a short time, and to have talk with you face to face. May you have peace. Your friends here send you their love. Give my love to our friends by name.
BLB Footnotes
Some English translations combine verses 14 and 15 into verse 14.  
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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3 John Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras