6. sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that [is] by the more part,
7. so that, on the contrary, [it is] rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;
8. wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,
9. for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.
10. And to whom ye forgive anything--I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven [it], because of you--in the person of Christ--[I forgive it,]
11. that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.
12. And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,
13. I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;
14. and to God [are] thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,
15. because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;
16. to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?
17. for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity-- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.