4 For out of much pressure and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be sad, but that you might know the love which I so richly have for you.
5 But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not made me sad, but in some degree you all – not to be too harsh.
6 For such a one this punishment, by the many, is sufficient,
7 so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort, lest somehow such a one be swallowed up with too much sadness.
8 So I appeal to you to confirm your love to him.
9 Besides, I wrote for this purpose also, that I might know the proof of you, if you are obedient in all matters.
10 And whom you forgive any matter, I do also. For indeed, if I have forgiven any matter, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the sight of Messiah,