1. But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.
2. For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?
3. And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have 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 unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.