3rd John Chapter 1 verse 6 Holy Bible
who bare witness to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God:
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Who have given witness to the church of your love for them: and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for, as is right for servants of God:
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(who have witnessed of thy love before [the] assembly,) in setting forward whom on their journey worthily of God, thou wilt do well;
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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:
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They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God,
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who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVer. 6. - Who bare witness to thy love before the Church. The thoroughly Greek word ἐκκλησία (which, however, had received a number of Jewish associations through its frequent use in the Septuagint)is used by St. John nowhere but in this Epistle. This witness of the brethren before the Church respecting the good deeds done to them is a type and earnest of the witness of Christ at the day of judgment: "I was a stranger, and ye took me in... Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me." Whom thou wilt do well to forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God. No higher standard could well be set. It reminds us of "perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect" Gains is to treat them as remembering the Divine declaration, "He that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me" (John 13:20). This coincidence, consciously or unconsciously made, between the Gospel and Third Epistle, is lost in the rather colourless rendering in the Authorized Version, "after a godly sort."
