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class="padleft"><div class="vheading">NIV Parallel ESV <a href="../../bsb/3_john/1.shtml">[BSB</a> <a href="../../csb/3_john/1.shtml">CSB</a> <a href="../../esv/3_john/1.shtml">ESV</a> <a href="../../hcs/3_john/1.shtml">HCS</a> <a href="../../kjv/3_john/1.shtml">KJV</a> <a href="../../isv/3_john/1.shtml">ISV</a> <a href="../../nas/3_john/1.shtml">NAS</a> <a href="../../net/3_john/1.shtml">NET</a> <a href="../../niv/3_john/1.shtml">NIV</a> <a href="../../nlt/3_john/1.shtml">NLT</a> <a href="../../heb/3_john/1.shtml">GRK]</a></div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">New International Version</td><td class="version" width="50%">English Standard Version</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The elder, To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It gave me great joy when some believers came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way in a manner that honors God.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So when I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone--and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I have much to write you, but I do not want to do so with pen and ink.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/3_john/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. [15] Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, each by name.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="//www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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