3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than these things, that I hear that my children are walking in truth. 1 Support and Opposition
English Majority Text (NT)
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 work for the brothers and for strangers,
Cross References
John 12:35Then Jesus said to them, “ For yet a little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
Galatians 2:14But when I saw that they did not act rightly with respect to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in Gentile fashion and not in Jewish fashion, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?”
1 Timothy 1:2To Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Warnings Against False Teachings
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 →