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.