⁸ Therefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your charity toward him.

⁹ For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

¹⁰ To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also; for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ,