Gaius – someone who proved he was a believer
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📚The elder✭ to the dearly loved Gaius✭ whom I love in the truth✭.2 📚✭Dear friend, above everything I want you to prosper and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 3 📚For I greatly rejoiced✭ when the brethren✭ came and testified about the truth that is in you, just as you are walking in the truth✭✭. 4 📚I have no greater joy than to hear that my children✭ are walking in truth.
5 📚Dear friend, you are doing faithfully✭ whatever you do for the brethren, and for strangers. 6 📚They have testified before the church about your love✭. If you bring them forward on their journey✭ in a godly way, you will do well✭; 7 📚because they went forth for his name’s sake✭, taking nothing from the Gentiles✭. 8 📚Therefore we ought to receive such, so that we might be helpers together for the truth✭.
Diotrephes – someone who proved he was not a believer
9 📚I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes✭, who loves to have the preeminence among them, will not receive us. 10 📚So, if I come, I will remember the deeds which he does, chattering against us✭ with malicious words. And not content with that, he does not receive the brethren himself, and forbids those who want to do so, and puts them out of the church✭.
11 📚Dear friend, do not follow what is evil, but what is good✭. He who does good is of God✭, but he who does✭ evil has not seen God.
Demetrius – someone even the truth speaks well of
12 📚All men speak well of Demetrius, and the truth itself✭ does also. Yes, and we also testify for him; and you know that our testimony is true.