²¹ What do you desire? ^(A)Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

2 But I determined this ^[a]for my own sake, that I ^(A)would not come to you again in sorrow. ² For if I ^(B)cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? ³ And this is the very thing I ^(C)wrote you, so that ^(D)when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having ^(E)confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all. ⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I ^(F)wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.