1. But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again.
2. For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful?
3. This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.
4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.