1. But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.
2. For if I make you sorrowful, who then will there be to make me rejoice, but the one whom I have made sorrowful?
3. I wrote concerning this matter to you, so that when I came, I would not be grieved by those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is your joy.
4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.
5. But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but to some extent all of you, not to put it too severely.
6. This punishment which was inflicted by many on such a man is sufficient.
7. So on the contrary, you ought to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps he might be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
8. Therefore I ask you to confirm your love toward him.