5. But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
6. This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
7. so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
8. Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
9. For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.