3 I was overjoyed when the brothers and sisters arrived and spoke highly of your faithfulness to the truth, shown by how you live according to the truth.
4 I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.
5 Dear friend, you act faithfully in whatever you do for our brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers.
6 They spoke highly of your love in front of the church. You all would do well to provide for their journey in a way that honors God,
7 because they left on their journey for the sake of Jesus Christ without accepting any support from the Gentiles.
8 Therefore, we ought to help people like this so that we can be coworkers with the truth.
9 I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, doesn’t welcome us.