1. For I have decided this for myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.
2. For if I cause you sorrow, then who will make me glad except the one who is caused to be sad by me?
3. And I wrote this very thing in order that when I came, I would not experience sorrow from those who ought to have made me glad, because I have confidence about you all, that my joy belongs to all of you.
4. For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you.