For if I make you (A)sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?

Forgive the Offender

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

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 2:4 tribulation

Sapagkat kung palulungkutin ko kayo, sino ang magpapasaya sa akin, kundi kayo na pinalungkot ko? Kaya't sumulat ako sa inyo, upang pagdating ko ay hindi ako palungkutin ng mga taong dapat ay magpapasaya sa akin. May tiwala ako sa inyong lahat na masaya kayo kung masaya ako. Sumulat ako sa inyo sa gitna ng matinding paghihirap ng kalooban at pangamba ng puso at kasabay ng maraming pagluha, hindi upang kayo'y palungkutin kundi upang malaman ninyo kung gaano kalaki ang pag-ibig ko sa inyo.

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