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.
10. To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it, in the person of Christ;
11. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
12. Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,