3 John 1:8-11

8Therefore we ought to support such people, so we might become co-workers in the truth.

9I wrote something to Messiah’s community, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t welcome us.

10So if I do come, I will call attention to what he is doing—slandering us with wicked words. Not even content with that, he refuses to welcome the brethren, and even forbids those who want to do so— throwing them out of the community!

11Loved ones, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.