For I have decided this for myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.

For if I [cause] you sorrow, then who will make me glad except the one who is caused to be sad by me?

And I wrote this very [thing] in order that [when I] came, I would not experience sorrow from those who ought to have made me glad, [because I] have confidence about you all, that my joy {belongs to all of you}.

But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has not caused me sorrow, but {to some degree}--{in order not to say too much}--[to] all [of] you.

So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

Now the one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed, and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow,