⁸ Therefore, we ought to help people like this so that we can be coworkers with the truth.

Criticism of Diotrephes

⁹ I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, doesn’t welcome us. ¹⁰ Because of this, if I come, I will bring up what he has done—making unjustified and wicked accusations against us. And as if that were not enough, he not only refuses to welcome the brothers and sisters but stops those who want to do so and even throws them out of the church!