[a]I wrote unto the Church, but Diotrephes which loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

10 Wherefore if I come, I will call to your remembrance his deeds which he doeth, prattling against us with malicious words, and not therewith content, neither he himself receiveth the brethren, but forbideth them that would, and thrusteth them out of the Church.

11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good: he that doeth well is of God: but he that doeth evil, hath not [b]seen God.

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Footnotes

  1. 3 John 1:9 Ambition and covetousness, two pestilent plagues (especially in them which have any Ecclesiastical function) are condemned in Diotrephes’ person.
  2. 3 John 1:11 Hath not known God.

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