2 Corinthians 2:2-4

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

² For if I grieve you, who indeed is the one cheering me except the one being grieved by me? ³ And I wrote this very^[a] thing in order that having come, I should not have grief from the ones of whom I ought-to-have rejoicing— having confidence in you all that my joy^[b] is the joy of you all.

I Wrote To You In Anguish Not To Grieve You, But Out of Love For You

⁴ For I wrote to you through many tears, out of much affliction and anguish of heart— not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.