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3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

In Context

3For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about yoʋr faithfulness to the truth and how yoʋ walk in the truth.

5Beloved, yoʋ are acting faithfully in whatever yoʋ do for the brothers and for those who are strangers to you.

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Cross References

John 12:35Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness will not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

Galatians 2:14But when I saw that they were not walking uprightly in accordance with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, “If yoʋ, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, why do yoʋ compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

1 Timothy 1:2to Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and 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 →

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