1. But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.
2. For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?
3. And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, 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 grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.
5. But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe.