3 John 1:6
who testified of your love before an assembly, whom you will do well, having sent forward worthily of God,
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In Context
7because they went forth for [His] Name, receiving nothing from the nations;
Cross References
Jonah 4:4And YHWH says, “Is doing good displeasing to you?”
Acts 15:3they indeed, then, having been sent forward by the assembly, were passing through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations, and they were causing great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 21:5but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, to the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees on the shore, we prayed,
2 Corinthians 1:16and to pass to Macedonia through you, and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be sent forward by you to Judea.
Colossians 1:10to walk worthily of the LORD, pleasing in all, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,
Titus 3:13Diligently send forth Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,
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 →