¹The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

¹Mukuru, kuna Gayo unodikamwa zvikuru, wandinoda ini nechokwadi.

²Beloved, I desire that in all things thou shouldest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.

²Mudiwa, ndinoshuva pamusoro pezvinhu zvose, kuti ubudirire, uve wakasimba, somweya wako uchibudirira.

³For I rejoiced exceedingly when [the] brethren came and bore testimony to thy [holding fast the] truth, even as *thou* walkest in truth.

³Nekuti ndakafara zvikuru hama padzakasvika dzichipupurira chokwadi chiri mauri kunyange sezvawakafamba muchokwadi.

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

⁴Handina mufaro unopfuura kunzwa kuti vana vangu vanofamba muchokwadi.

⁵Beloved, thou doest faithfully [in] whatever thou mayest have wrought towards the brethren and that strangers,

⁵Mudiwa, unoita nokutendeka zvose zvaunoita kuhama nekuvaeni;

⁶(who have witnessed of thy love before [the] assembly,) in setting forward whom on their journey worthily of God, thou wilt do well;

⁶vakapupurira rudo rwako pamberi pekereke; ivo kana ukavaperekedza nomutowo wakafanira Mwari uchaita zvakanaka.

⁷for for the name have they gone forth, taking nothing of those of the nations.

⁷Nekuti nekuda kweZita rake vakabuda, vasingatori chinhu kuvahedheni.

⁸*We* therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow-workers with the truth.

⁸Naizvozvo isu tinofanira kugamuchira vakadaro, kuti tibatsirane pachokwadi.

⁹I wrote something to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the first place among them, receives us not.

⁹Ndakanyorera kereke; asi Dhiotirefe, unoda kuva wepamberi pakati pavo, haatigamuchiri.

¹⁰For this reason, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he does, babbling against us with wicked words; and not content with these, neither does he himself receive the brethren; and those who would he prevents, and casts [them] out of the assembly.

¹⁰Naizvozvo kana ndichiuya, ndicharangarira mabasa ake aanoita, achitiitira makuhwa namashoko akaipa; uye asingagutsikani naizvozvo, kana iye amene haagamuchiri hama, uye unovadzivisa avo vanoda nokuvadzinga mukereke.

¹¹Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He that does good is of God. He that does evil has not seen God.

¹¹Mudiwa, usatevera chakaipa, asi chakanaka. Uyo, unoita zvakanaka, ndewaMwari; asi unoita zvakaipa, haana kuona Mwari.

¹²Demetrius has witness borne to him by all, and by the truth itself; and *we* also bear witness, and thou knowest that our witness is true.

¹²Dhemetirio unopupurirwa zvakanaka navose, uye nechokwadi chomene; nesuwo tinopupura, nemwi munoziva kuti kupupura kwedu ndokwechokwadi.

¹³I had many things to write to thee, but I will not with ink and pen write to thee;

¹³Ndakanga ndine zvinhu zvizhinji zvekunyora, asi handidi kukunyorera neingi nepeni;

¹⁴but I hope soon to see thee, and we will speak mouth to mouth.

¹⁴asi ndinovimba ndichakurumidza kukuona, tigotaurirana pazviso. Rugare kwauri. Hama dzinokukwazisa. Kwazisa hama nemazita.

¹⁵Peace [be] to thee. The friends greet thee. Greet the friends by name.