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

⁵ But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you). ⁶ Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him; ⁷ So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great. ⁸ For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts. ⁹ And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things. ¹⁰ But if you give forgiveness to anyone, I do the same: for if I have given forgiveness for anything, I have done it because of you, in the person of Christ; ¹¹ So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.