so that instead of censuring you should now forgive him and comfort him, in case the man is overwhelmed by excessive remorse.
be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.
forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.
Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.
We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.
And he was ill, nearly dead with illness. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me, to save me from having one sorrow upon another.
the pain God is allowed to guide ends in a saving repentance never to be regretted, whereas the world's pain ends in death.
I do sigh within this tent of mine with heavy anxiety — not that I want to be stripped, no, but to be under the cover of the other, to have my mortal element absorbed by life.
and when this mortal body has been invested with immortality, then the saying of Scripture will be realized, Death is swallowed up in victory.
So I beg you to reinstate him in your love.