1. For I decided not to come to you again in painful circumstances.
2. For if I inflict pain upon you, then who is there to cheer me except the one pained by me?
3. And I wrote as I did so that when I came I might not be pained by those in whom I should have rejoiced, confident about all of you that my joy is that of all of you.
4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you might be pained but that you might know the abundant love I have for you.
5. If anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure (not to exaggerate) to all of you.