1. But I determined this within myself, not to return again to you in sorrow.
2. For if I make you sorrowful, then who is it that can make me glad, except the one who is made sorrowful by me?
3. And so, I wrote this same thing to you, so that I might not, when I arrive, add sorrow to sorrow for those with whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you in all things, so that my joy may be entirely yours.
4. For with much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not so that you would be sorrowful, but so that you might know the charity that I have more abundantly toward you.
5. But if anyone has brought sorrow, he has not sorrowed me. Yet, for my part, this is so that I might not burden all of you.
6. Let this rebuke be sufficient for someone like this, for it has been brought by many.