The Elder
to Gaius, the beloved, whom I love in the truth. 

Beloved,
I pray that all will go well for you, and you will be in good health,
as it is well with your soul. 

For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth,
as you walk in the truth. 

I have no greater joy than this,
that I hear that my children are walking in the truth. 

Beloved, you act faithfully  in whatever you do for the brothers and sisters  –
for these ‘strangers’.
They have borne witness to your love before the church
– they who you will do well to help on their way, worthy of God. 

For they went out on behalf of the Name accepting nothing from the pagans.
So we ought  to support such people, so that we might be fellow-workers in the truth.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.