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5 And if one hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me [fn] , but,-that the declaration may not bear too hard on you-in a measure, all of you. ⁶ And sufficient for him, is this rebuke proceeding from many:⁷ so that, on the other hand, ye ought to forgive him and console him; lest he who is such a man, should be swallowed up with excessive grief.⁸ I therefore beseech you, that ye confirm to him your love.⁹ 9 For it was for this also that I wrote [fn] , that I might learn by a trial, whether ye would be obedient in every thing. ¹⁰ 10 And whom ye forgive, I also [fn] : for that which I forgave to any one, for your sakes I forgave it, in the presence of the Messiah; ¹¹ lest Satan should overreach us; for we know his devices.

¹² Moreover, when I came to Troas in announcing the Messiah, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,¹³ there was no quietude in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: and I took leave of them, and went into Macedonia.¹⁴ But thanks be to God, who always procureth us a triumph in the Messiah, and manifesteth by us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place.¹⁵ For, through the Messiah, we are unto God a sweet odor, in them that live and in them that perish:¹⁶ to these, an odor of death unto death; and to those, an odor of life unto life. And who is adequate to these things !¹⁷ For we are not like others, who dilute the words of God; but as of the truth, and as of God, we speak in the Messiah before God.