3 John 8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁸ Therefore we ought to support such people, so that we may become co-workers with the truth.

Diotrephes and Demetrius

⁹ I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. ¹⁰ So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing in spreading false charges against us. And not content with those charges, he refuses to welcome the friends,^[a] and even prevents those who want to do so and expels them from the church.