3 John 1:6
They have testified to the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,
who bare witness to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God:
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- have borne witness of thy charity
- 3 John 1:12; Philemon 1:5–7
- whom
- Acts 15:3; Acts 21:5; Romans 15:24; 2 Corinthians 1:16; Titus 3:13
- after a godly sort
- or, worthy of God. This is a literal and proper rendering of the original [axios tou theos ;] by which the antecedent to the possessive pronoun his, in the next verse, becomes immediately apparent. "In a manner worthy of God, and of your relations and obligations to Him, and such as He can approve."
- 1 Thessalonians 2:12
- do well
- Genesis 4:7; Jonah 4:4; Matthew 25:21–23; Acts 15:29; Philippians 4:14; 1 Peter 2:20