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.
10. To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also; for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ,
11. lest Satan should deceive us, for we do not ignore his devices.
12. Having come to Troas for the gospel of the Christ, even though a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
13. I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.
14. Now thanks be unto God, who always causes us to triumph in the Christ and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
15. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in those that are saved and in those that perish;