5. But if anyone has brought sorrow, he has not sorrowed me. Yet, for my part, this is so that I might not burden all of you.
6. Let this rebuke be sufficient for someone like this, for it has been brought by many.
7. So then, to the contrary, you should be more forgiving and consoling, lest perhaps someone like this may be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow.
8. Because of this, I beg you to confirm your charity toward him.
9. It was for this reason, also, that I wrote, so that I might know, by testing you, whether you would be obedient in all things.
10. But anyone whom you have forgiven of anything, I also forgive. And then, too, anyone I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it was done in the person of Christ for your sakes,
11. so that we would not be circumvented by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his intentions.