3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
In Context
5Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do to the brethren, and to strangers,
Cross References
John 12:35Then Jesus said to them: Yet a little while is the light with you: walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you. For he that walks in the darkness knows not whither he goes.
Galatians 2:14But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter, before them all: If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not after the manner of the Jews, why do you compel the Gen tiles to observe Jewish customs?
1 Timothy 1:2to Timothy, my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew Henry on 3 John 1:4-9
The Character of Gaius. ( a. d. 90.) 3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. 5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; 6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: 7 Because that for his name's sake they went… Read the whole commentary →