“And I wrote this same vnto you, least when I came, I should haue sorrow from them of whome I ought to reioyce, hauing confidence in you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
2:3 And I wrote thus to you - I wrote to you before in this determination, not to come to you in grief.
2Co 2:3 I wrote this same unto you. What he had written concerning the delay of his coming (1Co 16:5). Having confidence in you all. He delayed, having confidence that they would reform, so that all could rejoice together.