2 Corinthians 2:9-11

The Voice

⁹ I wrote these things to you with a clear purpose in mind: to test whether you are willing to live and abide by all my counsel. ¹⁰ If you forgive anyone, I forgive that one as well. Have no doubt, anything that I have forgiven—when I do forgive—is done ultimately for you in the presence of the Anointed One. ¹¹ It’s my duty to make sure that Satan does not win even a small victory over us, for we don’t want to be naïve and then fall prey to his schemes.