Forgiveness and Restoration of the Offender

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But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

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Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

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so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

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Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

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For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

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Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Messiah,

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that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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