2 Corinthians 2:7
King James Version
“So that contrariwise ye rather to forgive and comfort lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.”
Context
4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
5But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
6Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which of many.
7So that contrariwise ye rather to forgive and comfort lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm love toward him.
9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
10To whom ye forgive any thing, I also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave for your sakes in the person of Christ;