Wherefore I beseech you to confirm {\i your} love toward him.
So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.\par
For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only {\i use} not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.