3 John 1

1 From the elder to his dear friend Gaius, whom he sincerely loves.

པྲཱཙཱིནོ ྅ཧཾ སཏྱམཏཱད྄ ཡསྨིན྄ པྲཱིཡེ ཏཾ པྲིཡཏམཾ གཱཡཾ པྲཏི པཏྲཾ ལིཁཱམི།

2 Dear friend, I pray that all may be well with you and that you may have good health – I know that all is well with your soul.

ཧེ པྲིཡ, ཏཝཱཏྨཱ ཡཱདྲྀཀ྄ ཤུབྷཱནྭིཏསྟཱདྲྀཀ྄ སཪྻྭཝིཥཡེ ཏཝ ཤུབྷཾ སྭཱསྠྱཉྩ བྷཱུཡཱཏ྄།

3 For it was a great joy to me, when some followers of the Lord came and testified to your fidelity to the truth. I know that your own life is guided by the truth.

བྷྲཱཏྲྀབྷིརཱགཏྱ ཏཝ སཏྱམཏསྱཱརྠཏསྟྭཾ ཀཱིདྲྀཀ྄ སཏྱམཏམཱཙརསྱེཏསྱ སཱཀྵྱེ དཏྟེ མམ མཧཱནནྡོ ཛཱཏཿ།

4 Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to hear from time to time that the lives of my children are guided by the truth.

མམ སནྟཱནཱཿ སཏྱམཏམཱཙརནྟཱིཏིཝཱརྟྟཱཏོ མམ ཡ ཨཱནནྡོ ཛཱཡཏེ ཏཏོ མཧཏྟརོ ནཱསྟི།

5 Dear friend, you are faithful in all the things you do for other followers – even when they are strangers to you.

ཧེ པྲིཡ, བྷྲཱཏྲྀན྄ པྲཏི ཝིཤེཥཏསྟཱན྄ ཝིདེཤིནོ བྷྲྀཏྲྀན྄ པྲཏི ཏྭཡཱ ཡདྱཏ྄ ཀྲྀཏཾ ཏཏ྄ སཪྻྭཾ ཝིཤྭཱསིནོ ཡོགྱཾ།

6 They themselves have testified before the church to your love. You will do well to help them on their way in a manner worthy of the service of God.

ཏེ ཙ སམིཏེཿ སཱཀྵཱཏ྄ ཏཝ པྲམྣཿ པྲམཱཎཾ དཏྟཝནྟཿ, ཨཔརམ྄ ཨཱིཤྭརཡོགྱརཱུཔེཎ ཏཱན྄ པྲསྠཱཔཡཏཱ ཏྭཡཱ སཏྐརྨྨ ཀཱརིཥྱཏེ།

7 For it was on behalf of Christ’s name that they set out, not accepting even one thing from the Gentiles.

ཡཏསྟེ ཏསྱ ནཱམྣཱ ཡཱཏྲཱཾ ཝིདྷཱཡ བྷིནྣཛཱཏཱིཡེབྷྱཿ ཀིམཔི ན གྲྀཧཱིཏཝནྟཿ།

8 Therefore, we should support people like them, and so take our share in their work for the truth.

ཏསྨཱད྄ ཝཡཾ ཡཏ྄ སཏྱམཏསྱ སཧཱཡཱ བྷཝེམ ཏདརྠམེཏཱདྲྀཤཱ ལོཀཱ ཨསྨཱབྷིརནུགྲཧཱིཏཝྱཱཿ།

9 I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes (who loves to be the leader among them) doesn’t welcome us.

སམིཏིཾ པྲཏྱཧཾ པཏྲཾ ལིཁིཏཝཱན྄ ཀིནྟུ ཏེཥཱཾ མདྷྱེ ཡོ དིཡཏྲིཕིཿ པྲདྷཱནཱཡཏེ སོ ྅སྨཱན྄ ན གྲྀཧླཱཏི།

10 So if I come, I will bring up his actions in telling wicked nonsense about us. Not content with that, he not only refuses to personally welcome our friends who are followers, but actually stops those who would, and expels them from the church.

ཨཏོ ྅ཧཾ ཡདོཔསྠཱསྱཱམི ཏདཱ ཏེན ཡདྱཏ྄ ཀྲིཡཏེ ཏཏ྄ སཪྻྭཾ ཏཾ སྨཱརཡིཥྱཱམི, ཡཏཿ ས དུཪྻྭཱཀྱཻརསྨཱན྄ ཨཔཝདཏི, ཏེནཱཔི ཏྲྀཔྟིཾ ན གཏྭཱ སྭཡམཔི བྷྲཱཏྲྀན྄ ནཱནུགྲྀཧླཱཏི ཡེ ཙཱནུགྲཧཱིཏུམིཙྪནྟི ཏཱན྄ སམིཏིཏོ ྅པི བཧིཥྐརོཏི།

11 Dear friend, do not follow a bad example, but a good one. The person who does what is good is from God; the person who does what is bad has never seen God.

ཧེ པྲིཡ, ཏྭཡཱ དུཥྐརྨྨ ནཱནུཀྲིཡཏཱཾ ཀིནྟུ སཏྐརྨྨཻཝ། ཡཿ སཏྐརྨྨཱཙཱརཱི ས ཨཱིཤྭརཱཏ྄ ཛཱཏཿ, ཡོ དུཥྐརྨྨཱཙཱརཱི ས ཨཱིཤྭརཾ ན དྲྀཥྚཝཱན྄།

12 Everyone has always had a good word for Demetrius, and the truth itself speaks for him. Yes, and we also add our good word, and you know that what we say is true.

དཱིམཱིཏྲིཡསྱ པཀྵེ སཪྻྭཻཿ སཱཀྵྱམ྄ ཨདཱཡི ཝིཤེཥཏཿ སཏྱམཏེནཱཔི, ཝཡམཔི ཏཏྤཀྵེ སཱཀྵྱཾ དདྨཿ, ཨསྨཱཀཉྩ སཱཀྵྱཾ སཏྱམེཝེཏི ཡཱུཡཾ ཛཱནཱིཐ།

13 I have many things to tell you, but I would rather not use pen and ink.

ཏྭཱཾ པྲཏི མཡཱ བཧཱུནི ལེཁིཏཝྱཱནི ཀིནྟུ མསཱིལེཁནཱིབྷྱཱཾ ལེཁིཏུཾ ནེཙྪཱམི།

14 I hope to see you soon, and then we will speak face to face. Peace be with you. The friends here send you their greetings. Greet each one of our friends.

ཨཙིརེཎ ཏྭཱཾ དྲཀྵྱཱམཱིཏི མམ པྲཏྱཱཤཱསྟེ ཏདཱཝཱཾ སམྨུཁཱིབྷཱུཡ པརསྤརཾ སམྦྷཱཥིཥྱཱཝཧེ། ཏཝ ཤཱནྟི རྦྷཱུཡཱཏ྄། ཨསྨཱཀཾ མིཏྲཱཎི ཏྭཱཾ ནམསྐཱརཾ ཛྙཱཔཡནྟི ཏྭམཔྱེཀཻཀསྱ ནཱམ པྲོཙྱ མིཏྲེབྷྱོ ནམསྐུརུ། ཨིཏི།