Lecture 2 — Charity for the sorrowful

But if any one has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure --not to put it too severely -- to you all.

For such a one this punishment by the majority is enough;

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.

For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.

Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,

to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his designs.