Living_Oracles(i)
1 Besides, I determined this with myself, not to come again to you with sorrow.
2 For if I should make you sorry, who then is he that could make me glad, unless the same who is made sorry by me?
3 Wherefore, I wrote to you this very thing, that, coming, I might not have sorrow from them in whom I ought to rejoice; being firmly persuaded concerning you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
4 For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not that you might be made sorry, but that you might know the love which I have most abundantly toward you.