That ye would confirm your love. — The word for “confirm” (better, perhaps, ratify — comp. Galatians 3:15) suggests the thought of an act as formal and public as the rebuke had been. The excommunicated man was to be re-admitted to fellowship by a collective act of the Church.
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2 Corinthians 2:8
8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.