3 John 1 - Coverdale Miles 1535  Bible

¹ The Elder. To the beloued Gaius, whom I loue in the trueth.

² My beloued, I wysshe in all thinges, that thou prospere and fare well euen as thy soule prospereth.

³ I reioysed greatly, whan the brethren came, and testified of the trueth that is in ye, how thou walkest in the trueth.

⁴ I haue no greater ioye, the to heare that my childre walke in the trueth.

⁵ My beloued, thou doest faithfully what so euer thou doest to the brethren and to straugers,

⁶ which haue borne witnesse of thy loue before the congregacion: and thou hast done well that thou dyddest brynge them forwarde on their iourney, worthely before God.

⁷ For because of his names sake they wente forth, and toke nothinge of the Heythen.

⁸ We therfore oughte to receaue soch, that we mighte be helpers vnto the trueth.

⁹ I wrote to the congregacion, but Diotriphes, which loueth to haue the preemynence amonge them, receaued vs not.

¹⁰ Wherfore, yf I come, I wil declare his dedes which he doeth, ieastinge vpo vs with malicious wordes: nether is he therwith cotent. Not onely he himselfe receaueth not the brethre, but also he forbyddeth them that wolde, and thrusteth them out of the congregacion.

¹¹ My beloued, folowe not yt which is euell, but that which is good. He that doeth well, is of God: but he that doeth euell, seyth not God.

¹² Demetrius hath good reporte of all men, and of the trueth: yee and we oure selues also beare recorde, and ye knowe that oure recorde is true.

¹³ I had many thinges to wryte, but I wolde not with ynke, and pen wryte vnto the.

¹⁴ But I trust shortly to se the and so wyl we speake together mouth to mouth.