For if I make you sorry, who is he then that should make me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

And I wrote this same thing unto you, lest when I came, I should take heaviness of them of whom I ought to rejoice: this [a]confidence have I in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For in great affliction, and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have, specially unto you.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 2:3 For I trusted that you would take that out of the way forewith, which you knew I was discontented with, considering how you are persuaded that my joy is your joy.

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