8. Therefore I ask you to confirm your love toward him.
9. For to this end I also wrote, so that I might know that you are proving yourselves by whether you are being obedient in all things.
10. Whomever you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if I forgave someone anything, for your sakes I forgave it in Christ,
11. lest Satan should take advantage of us. For we are not ignorant of his devices.