epidechomai describes receiving or welcoming people, negatively illustrated by refusal to receive fellow believers.

The attested use concerns receiving people: Diotrephes is described as refusing both the writer and the brothers in the two supplied verses.

1. Receiving persons · dominant

   The same present middle indicative singular form occurs in both clauses of refusal. In 3 John 1:9 the APB renders Diotrephes as one who “does not receive” the writer; in 3 John 1:10 it renders him as one who “does not receive the brothers,” alongside preventing others and expelling them from the assembly.

   3 John 1:93 John 1:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “does not receive” in both cited verses, for the writer in 3 John 1:9 and for the brothers in 3 John 1:10. This rendering confirms the clauses' overall presentation rather than isolating every feature of the Greek form.