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3 John 1:7

Weymouth NT

For it is for Christ that they have gone forth, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.

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But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name–because they do not know Him who sent me.

No one's silver or gold or clothing have I coveted.

In all things I have set you an example, showing you that, by working as I do, you ought to help the weak, and to bear in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, »`It is more blessed to give than to receive.'«

They, therefore, left the Sanhedrin and went their way, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace on behalf of the NAME.

Those, however, who were scattered abroad went from place to place spreading the Good News of God's Message;

For I will let him know the great sufferings which he must pass through for My sake.«

What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

In what respect, therefore, have you been worse dealt with than other Churches, except that I myself never hung as a dead weight upon you? Forgive the injustice I thus did you!

(For we do not proclaim ourselves, but we proclaim Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bondservants for the sake of Jesus.)

It is in consequence of this that God has also so highly exalted Him, and has conferred on Him the Name which is supreme above every other,

Now I can find joy amid my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my own person whatever is lacking in Christ's afflictions on behalf of His Body, the Church.

It is therefore our duty to show hospitality to such men, so that we may be fellow workers in promoting the truth.

And you endure patiently and have borne burdens for My sake and have never grown weary.




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