2 Corinthians 2:5-11 - Forgive And Comfort The Offender

⁵ But if any man has caused sadness, he has not caused me sadness, but in part (that I may not bear down) you all. ⁶ Sufficient to such a man is this punishment by the many, ⁷ so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow. ⁸ Therefore I beseech you to affirm love for him. ⁹ For I also wrote for this, so that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things. ¹⁰ But to whom ye forgive anything, I too. For I also, whom I have forgiven (if anything), I have forgiven because of you in the presence of Christ, ¹¹ so that we may not be exploited by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his methods.