1. But I determined this with myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.
2. For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?
3. And I wrote this same to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.