1. But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.
2. For if I grieve you, who also is it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?
3. And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all.
4. For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.
5. But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge you) all of you.
6. Sufficient to such a one is this rebuke which has been inflicted by the many;
7. so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.
8. Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of your love.
9. For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.
10. But to whom ye forgive anything, I also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sakes in the person of Christ;
11. that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.
12. Now when I came to Troas for the publication of the glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in the Lord,