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But if any man has caused grief, he has not grieved me but in part – lest I should overburden you all. It is enough for the same man that he was rebuked by many. So now, instead, you ought to forgive him, and comfort him, lest that same person should be swallowed up with overmuch heaviness. Therefore I exhort you, so that love may have the power over him.

For this reason also I wrote: to know the proof of you, whether you would be obedient in all things.

10 Whomever you forgive for anything, I forgive also. And if I forgive a person anything, I forgive it for your sakes in the place of Christ, 11 lest Satan should get the advantage of us. For his devices are not unknown to us.

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