So I appeal to you to confirm your love to him.
So then, as we have occasion, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of the belief.
For you, brothers, have been called to freedom, only do not use freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort, lest somehow such a one be swallowed up with too much sadness.
Besides, I wrote for this purpose also, that I might know the proof of you, if you are obedient in all matters.
