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;