Catholic Public Domain Version
" But I determined this within myself, not to return again to you in sorrow. "
— 2 Corinthians 2:1, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.”
“But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow. ”
“But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.”
“So I made up my own mind not to pay you another painful visit.”
“But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow.”
“But it was my decision for myself, not to come again to you with sorrow.”
“But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.”
But I determined this within myself, not to return again to you in sorrow.
For if I make you sorrowful, then who is it that can make me glad, except the one who is made sorrowful by me?
And so, I wrote this same thing to you, so that I might not, when I arrive, add sorrow to sorrow for those with whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you in all things, so that my joy may be entirely yours.
For with much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not so that you would be sorrowful, but so that you might know the charity that I have more abundantly toward you.