Dear brother (agapēte | ἀγαπητέ | voc sg masc), you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, even though they are strangers.

Dear friend (agapēte | ἀγαπητέ | voc sg masc), I pray that in every way you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul is prospering.

From the elder, to Gaius my dear brother (agapētō | ἀγαπητῷ | dat sg masc), whom I love in truth.

Dear friends (agapētoi | ἀγαπητοί | voc pl masc), if God loved us like that, we also ought to love one another.

Dear friends (agapētoi | ἀγαπητοί | voc pl masc), let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Dear friends (agapētoi | ἀγαπητοί | voc pl masc), do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to find out whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Dear friends (agapētoi | ἀγαπητοί | voc pl masc), if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

Dear friends (agapētoi | ἀγαπητοί | voc pl masc), at the present time we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we will be. But we do know that when he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

Dear friends (agapētoi | ἀγαπητοί | voc pl masc), it is not a new commandment that I write to you, but an old commandment — one that you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message you have already heard.

You therefore, dear friends (agapētoi | ἀγαπητοί | voc pl masc), knowing this beforehand, be on your guard that you are not led astray by the error of these lawless people and fall from your stable position.