1. And I decided this within myself, not to come to you again in sadness.
2. For if I make you sad, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sad by me?
3. And I wrote to you as I did, so that having come, I might not have sadness over those from whom I should have joy, trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all.
4. For out of much pressure and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be sad, but that you might know the love which I so richly have for you.