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.
5. And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me; but in part, that I may not burden you all.
6. To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given by many:
7. So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8. Wherefore, I beseech you, that you would confirm your charity towards him.
9. For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.
10. And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ.
11. That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices.
12. And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened unto me in the Lord,