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.
12. And when I had arrived at Troas, because of the Gospel of Christ, and a door had opened to me in the Lord,
13. I had no rest within my spirit, because I was not able to find Titus, my brother. So, saying goodbye to them, I set out for Macedonia.
14. But thanks be to God, who always brings triumph to us in Christ Jesus, and who manifests the fragrance of his knowledge through us in every place.
15. For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ for God, both with those who are being saved and with those who are perishing.
16. To the one, certainly, the fragrance is of death unto death. But to the other, the fragrance is of life unto life. And concerning these things, who is so suitable?
17. For we are not like many others, adulterating the Word of God. But instead, we speak with sincerity: from God, before God, and in Christ.