¹问安我这作长老的写信给亲爱的该犹，就是我在真理中所爱的。

¹The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!

²亲爱的，我祝你凡事亨通，身体健壮，正如你的灵魂安泰一样。

²beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,

³有些弟兄来到，证实你心中存有真理，就是你按真理行事，我就非常欣慰。

³for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;

⁴我听见我的儿女按真理行事，我的喜乐没有比这更大的了。

⁴greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

⁵称赞该犹接待弟兄亲爱的，你向弟兄所行的，特别是向外地来的弟兄所行的，都是出于忠心。

⁵Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,

⁶他们在教会面前证实了你的爱；你照着　神所喜悦的，资助他们的旅程，这样是好的。

⁶who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

⁷因为他们为主的名出外，并没有从教外人接受什么。

⁷because for [His] name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;

⁸所以我们应当接待这样的人，好让我们为了真理成为同工。

⁸we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.

⁹不要效法恶，应该效法善我曾经略略写信给你那里的教会，但他们中间那好作领袖的丢特腓不接待我们。

⁹I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them — Diotrephes — doth not receive us;

¹⁰因此，我来的时候，必要提起他所作的事，就是他用恶言中伤我们；这还不够，他不但不接待弟兄，还要阻止那些想要接待的人，甚至把他们赶出教会。

¹⁰because 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.

¹¹亲爱的，不要效法恶，应该效法善。行善的属于　神，作恶的没有见过　神。

¹¹Beloved, 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;

¹²低米丢行善，有众人为他作证，真理本身也为他作证。我们也为他作证，你知道我们的见证是真的。

¹²to 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.

¹³问候的话我还有许多话要写给你，可是我不愿借用笔墨。

¹³Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,

¹⁴我盼望很快就见到你，当面谈谈。 [ (III John 1:15) 愿你平安。这里的朋友都问候你。请你一一提名问候你那里的朋友。 ]

¹⁴and 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.