MODERN LITERAL VERSION

1:1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love* in truth.
1:2 Beloved, I am praying for you to prosper and to be healthy concerning all things, just-as your soul prospers.
1:3 For* I rejoiced exceedingly of brethren coming and testifying of your truth, just-as you are walking in truth.
1:4 I have no greater joy than these things, that* I may hear my children are walking in the truth.

1:5 Beloved, you practice faithfully whatever work you do toward the brethren and toward strangers;
1:6 who testified to your* love* before the congregation*; whom you will do well to send onward worthily of God.
1:7 For* on behalf of the Name they went forth, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
1:8 Therefore we ought to receive those who are such, that* we should become fellow workers with the truth.

1:9 I wrote to the congregation*, but Diotrephes, who loves to be foremost among them, is not accepting us.
1:10 Because of this, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he practices, gossiping against us with evil words and not content with these, he himself does not accept the brethren and those who intend to come, he forbids and casts them out of the congregation*.

1:11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who practices good is from God. He who practices evil has not seen God.
1:12 Demetrius was testified of by all and by the truth itself. But we also are testifying and you* know that our testimony is true.

1:13 I had many things to write to you, but I do not wish to write them to you with ink and reed.
1:14 But I hope to see you immediately and we will speak {F} mouth to mouth. Peace to you*. The friends greet you*. Greet the friends according to name.
{Footnotes: 3Jn 1:14, i.e., face to face.}