For I was overjoyed when some brothers arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do lead the true Life;
I was overjoyed to find some of your children leading the true Life, as we were commanded to do by the Father.
for the sake of the Truth which remains within us and will be with us for ever:
I have no greater joy than to hear of my children living in the Truth.
in all my prayers for you all I always pray with a sense of joy
Now during these days Peter stood up among the brothers (there was a crowd of about a hundred and twenty persons all together).
love is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness,
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men and in particular to the household of the faith.
Beloved, I pray you may prosper in every way and keep well — as indeed your soul is keeping well.
Beloved, you are acting loyally in rendering any service to the brothers and especially to strangers;
So when I come, I shall bring up what he is doing, babbling against me with wicked words — and, not satisfied with words, he refuses to welcome the brothers, checks those who want to welcome them, and excommunicates them from the church.