2 Corinthians 2:8-10

Expanded Bible

⁸ So I ·beg [urge; encourage] you to ·show [reaffirm] that you love him. ⁹ I wrote you to test you and to see if you obey in everything [^CPaul’s “severe” letter (vv. 1, 3) evidently called the church to submit again to his authority]. ¹⁰ If you forgive someone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven—if I had anything to forgive—I forgave it for you, ·as if Christ were with me [or in the presence of Christ].