7. so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.
8. Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of your love.
9. For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.
10. But to whom ye forgive anything, I also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sakes in the person of Christ;
11. that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.
12. Now when I came to Troas for the publication of the glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in the Lord,
13. I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.
14. But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.
15. For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish: