4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you might be pained but that you might know the abundant love I have for you.
5 If anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure (not to exaggerate) to all of you.
6 This punishment by the majority is enough for such a person,
7 so that on the contrary you should forgive and encourage him instead, or else the person may be overwhelmed by excessive pain.
8 Therefore, I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
9 For this is why I wrote, to know your proven character, whether you were obedient in everything.
10 Whomever you forgive anything, so do I. For indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for you in the presence of Christ,