4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.
5. But if any hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
6. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted by many.
7. So that on the other hand, ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
8. Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love towards him.
9. For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.