2 Corinthians 2:1-4

Etheridge(i) 1 But I have determined this in myself, that I will not with sorrow again come to you. 2 For if I grieve you, who shall refresh me, but he whom I had grieved? 3 And I have written to you this very [epistle], lest when I come they grieve me, they who ought to refresh me. But I confide in you, that my joy is that of all of you. 4 And from great affliction and anxiety of heart I wrote those things to you with many tears, not that you might grieve, but (also) that you might know the abundant love I have towards you.