1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. |
2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? |
3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. |
4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. |
5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. |
6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. |
7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. |
8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. |
9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. |
10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; |
11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. |
