3 John 1:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, just as you are living according to the truth.

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  • 2 John 1:4 : 4 I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.
  • Eph 1:15-16 : 15 Prayer for Wisdom and Revelation For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.
  • 2 John 1:2 : 2 because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us forever.
  • Phil 1:4 : 4 I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you
  • Col 1:7-8 : 7 You learned the gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave– a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf– 8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
  • 1 Thess 3:6-9 : 6 But now Timothy has come to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us just as we also long to see you! 7 So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith. 8 For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord. 9 For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?
  • 3 John 1:4 : 4 I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 In my heart I store up your words, so I might not sin against you.
  • Rom 1:8-9 : 8 Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. 9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you
  • 2 Cor 7:6-7 : 6 But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus. 7 We were encouraged not only by his arrival, but also by the encouragement you gave him, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your deep concern for me, so that I rejoiced more than ever.

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  • 3 John 1:4-6
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    4I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.

    5The Charge to Gaius Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers(even though they are strangers).

    6They have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

  • 2 John 1:1-5
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    1¶ Introduction and Thanksgiving From the elder, to an elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth(and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth),

    2because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us forever.

    3Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

    4I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

    5Warning Against False Teachers But now I ask you, lady(not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

  • 3 John 1:1-2
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    1¶ Introduction and Thanksgiving From the elder, to Gaius my dear brother, whom I love in truth.

    2Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.

  • 3 John 1:12
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    12Worthy Demetrius Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. We also testify to him, and you know that our testimony is true.

  • 1 John 1:3-4
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    3What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

    4Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

  • Phlm 1:5-8
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    5because I hear of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.

    6I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ.

    7I have had great joy and encouragement because of your love, for the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

    8Paul’s Request for Onesimus So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

  • 3 John 1:8
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    8Therefore we ought to support such people, so that we become coworkers in cooperation with the truth.

  • 1 Cor 1:6
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    6just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you–

  • 1 Thess 3:6-7
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    6But now Timothy has come to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us just as we also long to see you!

    7So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

  • 2 Cor 2:3
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    3And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.

  • 2 Tim 1:4
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    4As I remember your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.

  • 2 John 1:12-13
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    12Conclusion Though I have many other things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come visit you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

    13The children of your elect sister greet you.

  • John 3:21
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    21But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

  • 2 Cor 1:12-13
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    12Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

    13For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely

  • 1 John 3:18-19
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    18Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

    19And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.

  • Phil 1:26
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    26so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

  • Phil 1:18
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    18What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

  • Col 1:6
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    6that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

  • 1 Tim 3:14
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    14Conduct in God’s Church I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you

  • Eph 1:15
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    15Prayer for Wisdom and Revelation For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

  • John 5:33
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    33You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

  • Ps 26:3
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    3For I am ever aware of your faithfulness, and your loyalty continually motivates me.

  • 1 John 2:21
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    21I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

  • 1 Cor 13:6
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    6It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.

  • 2 Thess 1:3
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    3Thanksgiving We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.

  • 2 Cor 13:8
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    8For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the sake of the truth.

  • Col 1:4
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    4since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

  • 2 Cor 13:1
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    1Paul’s Third Visit to Corinth This is the third time I am coming to visit you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.

  • Rom 9:1
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    1Israel’s Rejection Considered I am telling the truth in Christ(I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit–

  • Phil 1:3
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    3Prayer for the Church I thank my God every time I remember you.

  • Phil 2:18
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    18And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction(surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Salvation Based on the Word of God Therefore, I intend to remind you constantly of these things even though you know them and are well established in the truth that you now have.