A   The Elder vnto the beloven Gayus / whom I love in þe; trueth. Beloved / I wisshe in all thinges that thou prosperedest and faredest well ev&ebar; as thy soule prospereth. I reioysed greatly when the brethren came / and testified of the trueth that is in the / how thou walkest in trouthe. I have no greater ioye then for to heare howe that my sonnes walke in veritie.

B   Beloved / thou doest faythfully what soever thou doest to the brethren / and to straungers / which bare witnes of thy love before all the congregacion. Which brethren wh&ebar; thou bryngest forwardes on their iorney (as it besemeth god) thou shalt do well: because that for his names sake they went forth / and toke nothinge of the gentyls. We therfore ought

to receave soche / that we also myght be helpers to the trueth.

I wrote vnto the congregaci&obar;: but Diotrephes which loveth to have the preeminence am&obar;ge them / receaveth vs not. Wherfore yf I come / I will declare his dedes which he doeth / iestinge on vs with malicious wordes / nether is therewith content. Not only he him silfe receaveth not the brethr&ebar;: but also he forbiddeth them that wolde / and thrusteth them out of the congregacion.

Beloved / folowe not that which is evyll / but that which is good. He that doeth well is of God: but he þt; doeth evyll seith not God. Demetrius hath good reporte of all men / and of the trueth: ye and we oure selves also beare recorde / ∧ ye knowe that oure recorde is true. D   I have many thinges to wryte: but I will not with ynke and penne wryte vnto the. For I trust I shall shortly se the / and we shall speake mouth to mouth. Peace be with the. The lovers salute the. Grete the lovers by name.

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