1. But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in grief.
2. For if I make you grieve, who is he then that shall make me glad, but the same who is grieved by me?
3. And I wrote this same unto you, lest when I came, I should have grief from those 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 unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know how much more charity I have towards you.
5. But if any have caused me grief, he has not grieved me, but in part, that I may not put a burden on you all.
6. Sufficient to such a one is this reprehension, which was inflicted of many.
7. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much grief.
8. Therefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your charity toward him.
9. For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.