{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/3-john/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:25:23.532Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"3 John","bookSlug":"3-john","chapter":1,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":1,"totalVerses":14},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"because for His name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them — Diotrephes — doth not receive us;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"to Demetrius testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also — we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"and I hope straightway to see thee, and mouth to mouth we shall speak. Peace to thee! salute thee do the friends; be saluting the friends by name."}],"citation":{"inline":"3 John 1 (YLT)","markdown":"[3 John 1](https://primebible.com/ylt/3-john/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/3-john/1 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}