7. so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
8. Therefore I beg you to confirm your love towards him.
9. For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
10. Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Messiah,
11. that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.