11 My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning; Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.
Who will do you any damage if you keep your minds fixed on what is good?
And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.
Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him. My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright; The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One. Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.
Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:
For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;
And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;
So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.
So my desire is that you take me as your example.
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Commentary on 3 John 1 Matthew Henry Commentary
An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of
The Third Epistle of John
Chapter 1
In this epistle the apostle congratulates Gaius upon the prosperity of his soul (v. 1, 2), upon the fame he had among good Christians (v. 3, 4), and upon his charity and hospitality to the servants of Christ (v. 5, 6). He complains of contemptuous treatment by an ambitious Diotrephes (v. 9, 10), recommends Demetrius (v. 12), and expresses his hope of visiting Gaius shortly (v. 13, 14).
3Jo 1:1-2
Here we see,
3Jo 1:3-8
In these verses we have,
3Jo 1:9-11
3Jo 1:12-14
Here we have,