Passage

Whose conduct to imitate?

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

¹¹Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

3 John 1:11World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The call to imitate good stands between the account of Diotrephes and the testimony about Demetrius.

To understand

Diotrephes refuses to receive the brothers and expels those who would receive them. Demetrius has the testimony of everyone and of the truth; the letter adds its own testimony.

A question

What does Diotrephes do to people who want to receive the brothers?