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.
6. This punishment by the majority is enough for such a person,