4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.
5. But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe.
6. This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man,
7. so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.