1 But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.
2 For if I grieve you, who also is it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?
3 And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all.
4 For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.