3 John 1:3
Because it gave me great joy when some brothers came and testified to the truth about you, how you are walking in Truth.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2Dear one, I pray for you to prosper in every way and to be healthy, just as your soul prospers.
4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in Truth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:6But the God who encourages the lowly encouraged us by the coming of Titus;
Philippians 1:4in all my prayers for all of you I always pray with joy,
1 Thessalonians 2:19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Is it not precisely you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?
2 John 1:2because of the Truth, who abides in us and will be with us into the age:
3 John 1:4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in Truth.
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 →