Thomson(i)
1 but I determined this with myself, that my coming again should not be the occasion of grief to you.
2 For if I grieve you, who is there to gladden me? None, but he whom I have made sorrowful:
3 and I wrote to you for this 'very purpose, that, when I come, I may not have grief on account of them for whom I ought to rejoice; as I have a confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
4 For in great affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears"not that you should be grieved, but that you might know that overflowing love which I have for you.