1 I have decided not to make my next visit to you so painful.
2 If I make you feel bad, who would be left to cheer me up, except the people I had made to feel bad?
3 The reason I want to be happy is to make you happy. I wrote as I did because I didn't want to visit you and be made to feel bad, when you should make me feel happy.
4 At the time I wrote, I was suffering terribly. My eyes were full of tears, and my heart was broken. But I didn't want to make you feel bad. I only wanted to let you know how much I cared for you.
5 I don't want to be hard on you. But if one of you has made someone feel bad, I am not really the one who has been made to feel bad. Some of you are the ones.
6 Most of you have already pointed out the wrong that person did, and that is punishment enough for what was done.
7 When people sin, you should forgive and comfort them, so they won't give up in despair.