If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.
3 John 1:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Therefore, we ought to support such people so that we can be co-workers with the truth. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So we ourselves ought to support such people [to welcome and provide for them], in order that we may be fellow workers in the Truth (the whole Gospel) and cooperate with its teachers. American Standard Version (1901) We therefore ought to welcome such, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth. Common English Bible Therefore, we ought to help people like this so that we can be coworkers with the truth. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, we must accept such as these, in order that we may cooperate with the truth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow helpers of the truth. |
If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.
‘The one who welcomes you welcomes me, and the one who welcomes me welcomes him who sent me.
Then he will answer from inside and say, “Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.”
Working together with him, we also appeal to you, ‘Don’t receive the grace of God in vain.’
As for Titus, he is my partner and co-worker for you; as for our brothers, they are the messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
Yes, I also ask you, true partner, to help these women who have contended for the gospel at my side, along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers whose names are in the book of life.
and so does Jesus who is called Justus. These alone of the circumcised are my co-workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.
And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s co-worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you concerning your faith,
to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your home.
This is why, if I come, I will remind him of the works he is doing, slandering us with malicious words. And he is not satisfied with that! He not only refuses to welcome fellow believers, but he even stops those who want to do so and expels them from the church.
since they set out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from pagans. ,
I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have first place among them, does not receive our authority.