7. so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
8. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
9. For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.
10. Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,
11. so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
12. When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,
13. my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.