6. Sufficient to such a one is this reprehension, which was inflicted of many.
7. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much grief.
8. Therefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your charity toward him.
9. For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.