2 Corinthians 2:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

2 But I determined this with myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.

² For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?

³ And I wrote this same to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.