7. But now you should forgive him and encourage him. This will keep him from having too much sadness and giving up completely.
8. So I beg you to show him that you love him.
9. This is why I wrote to you. I wanted to test you and see if you obey in everything.
10. If you forgive someone, then I also forgive them. And what I have forgiven—if I had anything to forgive—I forgave it for you, and Christ was with me.
11. I did this so that Satan would not win anything from us. We know very well what his plans are.
12. I went to Troas to tell people the Good News of Christ. The Lord gave me a good opportunity there.
13. But I had no peace because I did not find my brother Titus. So I said goodbye and went to Macedonia.
14. But thanks be to God, who always leads us in victory through Christ. God uses us to spread his knowledge everywhere like a sweet-smelling perfume.
15. Our offering to God is to be the perfume of Christ that goes out to those who are being saved and to those who are being lost.