¹ANCIANOAC Gayo maite nic eguiazqui on daritzadanari.

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

²Maiteá, desiratzen diat gauça gucietan prospera deçán, eta sendo aicén, hire arimá prospero den beçala.

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

³Ecen alegueratu içan nauc haguitz ethorri içan diradenean anayeac eta testificatu vkan dutenean hire integritateaz, nola integroqui ebilten baitaiz.

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

⁴Haur baino bozcario handiagoric eztiát, cein baita, ençuten dudanean ene haourrac integroqui dabiltzala.

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

⁵Maiteá, fidelqui eguiten duc cer-ere eguiten baituc anayetara eta estrangeretara.

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

⁶Ceinéc testificatu vkan baituté hire charitateaz Eliçaren presentián: hec baldin guida baditzac Iaincoari dagocan beçala, vngui daidiquec.

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

⁷Ecen haren icenagatic partitu içan dituc, deus hartzen etzutela Gentiletaric.

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

⁸Guc beraz behar citiagu recebitu halacoac, eguiá aiuta deçagunçát.

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

⁹Scribatu diarocát Eliçari: baina hayén artean lehen içan aiher denac, Diotrephesec ezguiaitic recebitzen.

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

¹⁰Halacotz, baldin ethor banadi aippaturen citiat harc eguiten dituen obrác, elhe gaichtoz dadassala gure contra: eta hauçaz ez contentez, eztitic berac anayeac recebitzen, eta recebitu nahi dituztenac empatchatzen citic eta Eliçatic egoizten.

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.

¹¹Maiteá, ezteçála imita gaitza, baina ona: vngui eguiten duena, Iaincoaganic duc: baina gaizqui eguiten duenac eztic ikussi Iaincoa.

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;

¹²Demetrioz guciéc testificatzen dié, eta eguiac berac-ere: baina guc-ere testificatzen diagu, eta eçagutu vkan duçue ecen gure testificationea eguiazco dela.

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.

¹³Banián anhitz gauça scribatzecoric, baina eztrauát tintaz eta hegatsez scribatu nahi.

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

¹⁴Baina sperança diát sarri ikussiren audala, eta ahoz aho minçaturen garela.

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.

¹⁵Baquea dela hirequin. Salutatzen auté adisquidéc. Salutaitzac adisquideac icenguilatuqui.