3 John 1:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 3:7 : 7 And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.
  • John 21:24 : 24 This is the disciple who gives witness about these things and who put them in writing: and we have knowledge that his witness is true.
  • John 19:35 : 35 And he who saw it has given witness (and his witness is true; he is certain that what he says is true) so that you may have belief.
  • Acts 10:22 : 22 And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.
  • Acts 22:12 : 12 And one Ananias, a God-fearing man, who kept the law, and of whom all the Jews in that place had a high opinion,
  • 1 Thess 4:12 : 12 That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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  • 3 John 1:3-6
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    3For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.

    4I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.

    5My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;

    6Who have given witness to the church of your love for them: and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for, as is right for servants of God:

  • 10You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

  • 11My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

  • 2 John 1:1-4
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    1I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;

    2Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:

    3May grace, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in all true love.

    4It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.

  • 1 John 1:1-5
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    1That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

    2(And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);

    3We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

    4And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.

    5This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

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    12For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

    13For in our letters we say no other things to you, but those which you are reading, and to which you give agreement, and, it is my hope, will go on doing so to the end:

    14Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

  • 3 John 1:8-9
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    8So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith.

    9I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there.

  • 8Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.

  • John 5:32-33
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    32There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.

    33You sent to John and he gave true witness.

  • 19In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

  • 9If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

  • 33He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

  • 2Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw.

  • 8By glory and by shame, by an evil name and a good name; as untrue, and still true;

  • 24This is the disciple who gives witness about these things and who put them in writing: and we have knowledge that his witness is true.

  • 1I, a ruler in the church, send word to the well loved Gaius, for whom I have true love.

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    18As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.

    19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we were preaching among you, even I and Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No, but in him is Yes.

  • 6Even as the witness of the Christ has been made certain among you:

  • 2You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

  • 17Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true.

  • 16For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.

  • 5Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

  • 13I had much to say to you, but it is not my purpose to put it all down with ink and pen:

  • 1I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

  • 21I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

  • 9For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

  • 11Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

  • 14For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

  • 1As a number of attempts have been made to put together in order an account of those events which took place among us,

  • 13This witness is true. So say sharp words to them so that they may come to the right faith,

  • 21But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

  • 5For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

  • 8Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

  • 5Hearing of the love and the faith which you have to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints;

  • 2And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.