7for for the name have they gone forth, taking nothing of those of the nations.


In Context

4 I have no greater joy than these things that I hear of my children walking in the truth.

5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully in whatever thou mayest have wrought towards the brethren and that strangers,

6 (who have witnessed of thy love before the assembly,) in setting forward whom on their journey worthily of God, thou wilt do well;

7 for for the name have they gone forth, taking nothing of those of the nations.

8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow-workers with the truth.

9 I wrote something to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the first place among them, receives us not.

3 John 1:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:7Because that for his name’s sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:7It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:7because that for the sake of the Name they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:7Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:7Because, for his name they went out, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:7because that for the sake of the Name they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7Because for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7because for His name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;