4. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
5. Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,
6. who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.
7. For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.
8. Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
9. I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.