哥林多后书第二章第1—4节，保罗说他下定了决心，以后再到哥林多教会那里去的话，将不怀着悲痛的心情去。保罗说他到哥林多那里去不是去批评哥林多的弟兄们让弟兄们难过，而是觉得哥林多的弟兄们应该始终持守主的真理让保罗高兴。保罗说他给哥林多教会写信的时候泪流满面，心里是非常痛的，他不愿意弟兄们看到保罗的书信时感到愧疚难过，而是想让大家知道保罗写信给哥林多教会是因为他格外疼爱大家，希望大家持守主的福音，活在基督的爱里。
林后2:1 我自己定了主意、再到你们那里去、必须大家没有忧愁。
But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
林后2:2 倘若我叫你们忧愁、除了我叫那忧愁的人以外、谁能叫我快乐呢。
For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me?
林后2:3 我曾把这事写给你们、恐怕我到的时候、应该叫我快乐的那些人、反倒叫我忧愁．我也深信、你们众人都以我的快乐为自己的快乐。
And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.
林后2:4 我先前心里难过痛苦、多多的流泪、写信给你们．不是叫你们忧愁、乃是叫你们知道我格外的疼爱你们。
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
