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I Tertius who wrote this Epistle, salute you in the Lord.

I wrote vnto you in an Epistle, not to company with fornicators.

¶ Now cōcerning the things wherof ye wrote vnto me, It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

And I wrote this same vnto you, least when I came, I should haue sorrow from them of whome I ought to reioyce, hauing confidence in you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that you should bee grieued, but that yee might knowe the loue which I haue more abundantly vnto you.

Wherefore though I wrote vnto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appeare vnto you.

How that by reuelation hee made knowen vnto me the mysterie, (as I wrote afore in few words,

1611 marginal noteOr, a little before.

Hauing confidence in thy obedience, I wrote vnto thee, knowing that thou wilt also doe more then I say.

And now, I beseech thee Lady, not as though I wrote a new commandement vnto thee: but that which wee had from the beginning, that wee loue one another.

I wrote vnto the Church, but Diotrephes, who loueth to haue the preeminence among them, receiueth vs not.