3 John

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3 John commends Gaius for welcoming and supporting traveling believers. The elder contrasts this hospitality with Diotrephes’ refusal to receive them and his exclusion of people who offer help. The letter recommends Demetrius, urges imitation of good rather than evil, and closes with the hope of a personal visit.

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3 John is one of the general letters of the New Testament, the same 27 books in every Christian Bible. See it on the shelf.

Gaius welcoming dusty messengers with food and supplies beside a neighboring closed doorway

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3 John commends Gaius’s hospitality, confronts Diotrephes’s controlling behavior, and recommends Demetrius.

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