Bible
Read this if you…
- want the shortest book in the Bible — a one-pager you can read in two minutes
- curious about early church politics: a power struggle over hospitality, with one Diotrephes refusing to host traveling missionaries
- like reading something that feels like a real personal letter, not scripture polished for posterity
Skip this if you…
- don't want to read explicitly religious/Christian texts
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King James Version
Oxford University Press · 1611
The most influential and commonly quoted translation in English. The prose rhythm everyone else is responding to, even modern translations.
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Notable Quotes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
AcclaimPraised by 5 notable voices
- D.A. Carson, New Testament scholar, b. 1946: "It's penetrating and takes us very close to the heart of the gospel itself."
- Raymond E. Brown, Catholic biblical scholar (Sulpician), 1928–1998: A rare, vivid glimpse of a first-century church in crisis—the Elder versus the ambitious Diotrephes over the shape of Christian authority.
- Athanasius of Alexandria, 4th-century Church Father, bishop, c. 296–373: Named 3 John in the earliest surviving list to fix the New Testament canon as the church now holds it.
- John R.W. Stott, Anglican theologian, 1921–2011: Three indelible portraits—the generous Gaius, the domineering Diotrephes, the faithful Demetrius—a study in what Christian leadership ought and ought not to be.
- I. Howard Marshall, evangelical biblical scholar, 1934–2015: The Johannine epistles are concerned with the fundamentals of Christian belief and life—faith and love.
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