5. But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but to some extent—not to exaggerate—to all of you.
6. For such a person, this punishment by the majority is enough.
7. So instead you should forgive him and encourage him. Otherwise such a person might be swallowed up by excessive sorrow.
8. Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
9. For to this end I also wrote, that I might know your character, whether you are obedient in all things.
10. Now anyone you forgive, I also forgive. For indeed, what I have forgiven (if I have forgiven anything), I did it for you in the presence of Messiah,
11. so that we might not be outwitted by satan—for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
12. Now when I arrived in Troas for the Good News of Messiah, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,
13. I had no rest in my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus my brother. So I said farewell to them, and I set out for Macedonia.
14. But thanks be to God, who in Messiah always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us reveals everywhere the aroma of the knowledge of Himself.
15. For we are the aroma of Messiah to God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing—
16. to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. Who is competent for these things?