1. And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,
2. for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?
3. and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,
4. for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.
5. And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;
6. sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that [is] by the more part,
7. so that, on the contrary, [it is] rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;
8. wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,
9. for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.
10. And to whom ye forgive anything--I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven [it], because of you--in the person of Christ--[I forgive it,]