I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first amongst them, doesn’t accept what we say.
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.
“Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”
and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least amongst you all, this one will be great.”
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honour prefer one another,
He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Messiah doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.