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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Corinthians 2:7 in context
2 Corinthians 2:4–10
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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
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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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This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
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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 Christ,
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