{"id":10011,"date":"2026-10-10T06:19:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=10011"},"modified":"2026-10-10T06:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:19:57","slug":"3-john-19-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=10011","title":{"rendered":"3 John 1:9-10"},"content":{"rendered":"

9\u00a0<\/sup>I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

10\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words. And not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren, and forbids those who wish to, putting\u00a0them\u00a0out of the church.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

I wrote (v.9) \u2014 refers to a letter that has been lost, not to 1 or 2 John<\/h3>\n

does not receive (v.9) \u2014 does not receive John and his friends into fellowship \u2014 Grace, page 2229.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Diotrephes … was guilty in four respects: (1) an ambition to hold the chief place, (2) a refusal to receive John and his fellow-workers, (3) slanderous attacks upon them, (4) excommunicating those who would receive them. \u2014 Vine, page 125.<\/span><\/h3>\n

call to mind (v.10) \u2014 draw the attention of everyone in the church to the matter.<\/h3>\n

prating (v.10) = making false accustions in a garrulous way, meaninglessly gossipping<\/h3>\n

receive (v10) = give hospitality to<\/h3>\n

forbids … putting them out (v.10) \u2014 tense indicates a regular course of action.<\/h3>\n

While Diotrephes was a real person, he is also representative of those who are too willing to use legalistic religion to build up their own pride and power. This attitude was later to become a stumbling block for a great man in church history as leaders in “Christianized” countries became intertwined with political authority. The professing church became a vehicle to exploit the people and to punish enemies. Unregenerate men took over church government to become dictators over God’s people. \u2014 Grace, page 2229.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

9\u00a0I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. 10\u00a0Therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words. And … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10012,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions\/10012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}