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Ri rox wuj ri xutzˈibaj ca ri apóstol San Juan

Ri San Juan nutek el rutzil ruwech ri kachˈalal Gayo

Riyin ri Juan, yin anciano chiquicojol ri kachˈalal, ntzˈibaj cˈa el re wuj reˈ chawe riyit wachˈalal Gayo, ruma can kitzij chi yatinwajoˈ.

Wachˈalal ri sibilaj yatinwajoˈ, riyin nwajoˈ chi can ta utz ntel chawech ronojel ri nasamajij, y man ta jun ayabil. Can ta achiˈel ri acˈaslen chuwech ri Dios chi can utz wi benak. Riyin sibilaj xiquicot, ruma yecˈo nicˈaj kachˈalal ri xoquitzijoj chuwe chi can kitzij chi atzekelben ri kitzij. Y can majun chic jun quicoten ri más rejkalen que chuwech reˈ, tek nwacˈaxaj chi ri ye achiˈel tak walcˈual jabel quitzekelben ri kitzij.

Ri kachˈalal Gayo can yerutoˈ ri nicˈaj chic kachˈalal

Wachˈalal Gayo, riqˈui cˈa ri utzil ri yatajin chubanic, can nacˈut cˈa chi can acukuban wi acˈuˈx riqˈui ri Dios. Riyit can nayaˈ cˈa ri nicˈatzin chique ri kachˈalal ri yecˈo pan atinamit y queriˈ chukaˈ naben quiqˈui ri kachˈalal ri yepe nej. Y riyeˈ can xquitzijoj cˈa chique ri kachˈalal tek quimolon quiˈ. Xquitzijoj ri ajowabel ri cˈo pan awánima. Rumariˈ riyin ncˈutuj cˈa jun utzil chawe chi ronojel mul tek yekˈax awuqˈui, tayaˈ el ri nicˈatzin chique. Can utz wi chi queriˈ naben ruma riyeˈ can niquiben wi ri rusamaj ri Dios. Riyeˈ quichapon bey ruma nicajoˈ niquitzijoj ri rubiˈ ri Jesucristo chique ri winek ri ma jane quiniman ta, y majun achique quicˈutun ta chique ri winek riˈ. Rumacˈariˈ nicˈatzin chi yoj cˈa riyoj ri yojyaˈo ri nicˈatzin chique riche (rixin) chi queriˈ riyoj chukaˈ nikaben jubaˈ ri rusamaj ri Dios, ruma yekatoˈ el tek ye benak chutzijoxic ri kitzij.

Ri ma utz ta ri ntajin chubanic ri Diótrefes

Xintek yan el jun wuj chique ri kachˈalal ri nibix iglesia chique ri yecˈo chiriˈ pan atinamit. Yacˈa ri achi ri Diótrefes rubiˈ ma xunimaj ta ri xinbij, ruma can runimirisan riˈ y nika chuwech chi ruyon riyaˈ ri cˈo rukˈij chiquicojol ri kachˈalal. 10 Rumacˈariˈ wi xquinapon iwuqˈui, xtinbij cˈa chiquiwech ri kachˈalal ri nuben riyaˈ, chi cˈo ri yerubilaˈ chikij y xa ma ye kitzij ta. Y ma xu (xe) ta wi riˈ ri yeruben. Chukaˈ ma yerucˈul ta ri kachˈalal ri yekˈax pe riqˈui. Y ma nuyaˈ ta chukaˈ kˈij chique ri nicˈaj chic kachˈalal chi yequicˈul ri yeˈapon quiqˈui. Y wi ma niquinimaj ta rutzij, yerelesaj el chiquicojol ri kachˈalal.

Ri utzilaj rucˈaslen ri kachˈalal Demetrio

11 Wachˈalal, ri sibilaj yatinwajoˈ, nbij cˈa chawe: Ma tatzekelbej ta ri xa ma utz ta. Xa tatzekelbej ri utz. Ruma ri nibano ri utz, can riche (rixin) cˈa ri Dios. Yacˈa ri nibano ri xa ma utz ta, ma retaman ta ruwech ri Dios. 12 Quinojel cˈa yebin chi can utz ri rucˈaslen ri kachˈalal Demetrio, y can kitzij nikˈalajin chi queriˈ. Y can ya chukaˈ riˈ nikabij riyoj. Y riyix iwetaman chi riyoj ma nikatzˈuc ta tzij tek nikabij riˈ.

Ri ruqˈuisbel tak chˈabel chare re wuj reˈ

13 Cˈo qˈuiy ri nwajoˈ nbij chawe. Xa yacˈa ri ma nwajoˈ ta ntzˈibaj el ronojel chupan re wuj reˈ. 14 Ruma can nraybej chi yinapon yan awuqˈui y cˈacˈariˈ xkojtzijon chi utz awuqˈui.

15 Xticˈojeˈ ta cˈa uxlanibel cˈuˈx pan awánima. Ri kachˈalal ri yecˈo waweˈ niquitek el rutzil awech. Y riyit tabanaˈ cˈa utzil, tayaˈ rutzil quiwech chiquijujunal ri kachˈalal ri yecˈo chiriˈ.

The elder,(A)

To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. It gave me great joy when some believers(B) came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it.(C) I have no greater joy than to hear that my children(D) are walking in the truth.(E)

Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters,[a](F) even though they are strangers to you.(G) They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way(H) in a manner that honors(I) God. It was for the sake of the Name(J) that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans.(K) We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.

I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. 10 So when I come,(L) I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers.(M) He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.(N)

11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good.(O) Anyone who does what is good is from God.(P) Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.(Q) 12 Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone(R)—and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true.(S)

13 I have much to write you, but I do not want to do so with pen and ink. 14 I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.(T)

15 Peace to you.(U) The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.(V)

Footnotes

  1. 3 John 1:5 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family.