3 John 1:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

3 John 1:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Titus 1:7-16
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; …
Luke 22:24-27
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. …
Luke 9:48
And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
Matthew 23:4-8
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. …
Matthew 10:40-42
He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-11)

I. Here is a very different example and character, an officer, a minister in the church, less generous, catholic, and communicative than the private Christians. Ministers may sometimes be out-shone, out-done. In reference to this minister, we see, 1. His name—a Gentile name: Diotrephes, attended with an unchristian spirit. 2. His temper and spirit—full of pride and ambition: He loves to have the p…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. I wrote--The oldest manuscripts add “something”: a communication, probably, on the subject of receiving the brethren with brotherly love (3Jo 8, 10). That Epistle was not designed by the Spirit for the universal Church, or else it would have been preserved. unto the church--of which Gaius is a member. loveth ... pre-eminence--through ambition. Evidently occupying a high place in the Church wher…