2 Corinthians 2:4-10

4For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

5But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.

6Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been inflicted] by the many;

7so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

8Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.

9For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.

10But to whom ye forgive anything, I also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, [it is] for your sakes in [the] person of Christ;