6Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was [inflicted] by the many;
7so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
8Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him.
9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
10But to whom ye forgive anything, I [forgive] also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes [have I forgiven it] in the presence of Christ;
11that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
12Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
