2 Corinthians 2:3-5

New King James Version

Forgive the Offender

³ And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, ^(A)I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, ^(B)having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. ⁴ For out of much ^[a]affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, ^(C)not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.

⁵ But ^(D)if anyone has caused grief, he has not ^(E)grieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe.