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

⁵ As to him who has been, and now is, causing pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but all of you??t least some of you (not to overstate the case). ⁶ Sufficient for the offender is the punishment imposed by the majority; ⁷ so that now you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest he should be overwhelmed by the excess of his grief. ⁸ So I beg you to reinstate him in your love. ⁹ For this very purpose also I wrote you (before), that I might test you, to see if you were obedient in every respect. ¹⁰ If you forgive the man, I forgive him, too; for whatever I have forgiven has been forgiven in the presence of Christ, ¹¹ for your sakes, that I may not be overreached by Satan, for I am not ignorant of his devices.