Why I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.
So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things.
For, brothers, you have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to them who are of the household of faith.