For if I (A)cause you sorrow, who then will be the one making me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me? This is the very thing I (B)wrote you, so that (C)when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having (D)confidence in you all that my joy was the joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I (E)wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

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For if I grieve you,(A) who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved? I wrote as I did,(B) so that when I came I would not be distressed(C) by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence(D) in all of you, that you would all share my joy. For I wrote you(E) out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.

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