4. For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.
5. But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge you) all of you.
6. Sufficient to such a one is this rebuke which has been inflicted by the many;
7. so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.
8. Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of your love.
9. For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.