{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0031.tlg025.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0031.tlg025.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0031.tlg025.local002","title":"Ἰωάννου Γ′","titleGreek":"Ἰωάννου Γ′","alternateTitles":[],"author":"New Testament","authorityName":"NOVUM TESTAMENTUM","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0031-novum-testamentum/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0031-novum-testamentum/","editors":["Brooke Foss Westcott","Fenton John Anthony Hort"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"The New Testament","edition":null,"publisher":"Harper and Brothers","place":"New York","date":"1882-1892","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Tufts University"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/newtestamentinor00west_0/page/345/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"New Testament. Ἰωάννου Γ′. ed. Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort. The New Testament, New York, Harper and Brothers, 1882-1892. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0031.tlg025.local002","excerpt":"Ο ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΕΡΟΣ Γαίῳ τῷ ἀγαπητῷ, ὃν ἐγὼ ἀγαπῶ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ. Ἀγαπητέ, περὶ πάντων εὔχομαί σε εὐοδοῦσθαι καὶ ὑγιαίνειν, καθὼς εὐοδοῦταί σου ἡ ψυχή. ἐχάρην γὰρ λίαν ἐρχομένων ἀδελφῶν καὶ μαρτυρούντων σου τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, καθὼς σὺ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ περιπατεῖς. μειζοτέραν τούτων οὐκ ἔχω χάριν, ἵνα ἀκούω τὰ ἐμὰ τέκνα ἐν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ περιπατοῦντα. Ἀγαπητέ, πιστὸν ποιεῖς ὃ ἐὰν ἐργάσῃ εἰς τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς καὶ τοῦτο ξένους, οἳ ἐμαρτύρησάν σου τῇ ἀγάπῃ ἐνώπιον ἐκκλησίας, οὓς καλῶς ποιήσεις προπέμψας ἀξίως τοῦ θεοῦ· ὑπὲρ γὰρ τοῦ ὀνόματος ἐξῆλθαν μηδὲν λαμβάνοντες ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνικῶν. ἡμεῖς οὖν ὀφείλομεν ὑπολαμβάνειν τοὺς τοιούτους, ἵνα συνεργοὶ γινώμεθα τῇ ἀληθείᾳ. Ἔγραψά τι τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ· ἀλλʼ ὁ φιλοπρωτεύων αὐτῶν Διοτρέφης οὐκ ἐπιδέχεται ἡμᾶς. διὰ τοῦτο, ἐὰν ἔλθω, ὑπομνήσω αὐτοῦ τὰ ἔργα ἃ ποιεῖ, λόγοις πονηροῖς φλυαρῶν ἡμᾶς, καὶ μὴ ἀρκούμενος ἐπὶ τούτοις οὔτε αὐτὸς ἐπιδέχεται τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς καὶ τοὺς βουλομένους κωλύει καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0031.tlg025.local002/#tlg0031-tlg025-local002-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0031.tlg025.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0031.tlg025.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0031/tlg025/local002.json.gz"}}