3 John 1:2
Beloved, I pray above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
1The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
Cross References
Philippians 2:4Consider not each one his own gifts, but each one also the gifts of others.
Colossians 1:4since we heard of your faithfulness in Christ Jesus, and your love for all the saints,
1 Thessalonians 2:13For this reason, also, we thank God without ceasing; because, when you received the word of God, as preached by us, you embraced it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:6But now, since Timothy has come to us from you, and has told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us at all times, greatly desiring to see us, as indeed we desire to see you,
2 Thessalonians 2:13But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God did, from the beginning, choose you to salvation, by sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,
James 5:12But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by heaven, or by the earth, or with any other oath: but let your yes, be yes, and your no, be no, lest you fall into condemnation.
Matthew Henry on 3 John 1:2-3
Completed by John Reynolds, of Shrewsbury . Christian communion is exerted and cherished by letter. Christians are to be commended in the practical proof of their professed subjection to the gospel of Christ. The animating and countenancing of generous and public-spirited persons is doing good to many—to this end the apostle sends this encouraging epistle to his friend Gaius, in which also he complains of the quite opposite spirit and practice of a certain minister, and confirms the good report concerning another… Read the whole commentary →