1. I have decided not to make my next visit to you so painful.
2. If I make you feel bad, who would be left to cheer me up, except the people I had made to feel bad?
3. The reason I want to be happy is to make you happy. I wrote as I did because I didn't want to visit you and be made to feel bad, when you should make me feel happy.
4. At the time I wrote, I was suffering terribly. My eyes were full of tears, and my heart was broken. But I didn't want to make you feel bad. I only wanted to let you know how much I cared for you.
5. I don't want to be hard on you. But if one of you has made someone feel bad, I am not really the one who has been made to feel bad. Some of you are the ones.
6. Most of you have already pointed out the wrong that person did, and that is punishment enough for what was done.
7. When people sin, you should forgive and comfort them, so they won't give up in despair.
15-16. In fact, God thinks of us as a perfume that brings Christ to everyone. For people who are being saved, this perfume has a sweet smell and leads them to a better life. But for people who are lost, it has a bad smell and leads them to a horrible death.No one really has what it takes to do this work.