3 John key verses

3 John 2 “Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.”

A prayer for well-being

3 John 3 “For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.”

Joy over walking in truth

3 John 4 “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”

The elder’s greatest joy

3 John 5 “Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are.”

Faithful hospitality

3 John 8 “Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.”

Partnership in the gospel

3 John 9 “Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.”

The love of preeminence

3 John 11 “Do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.”

Imitate good, not evil