“For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.”
For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of the love I have for you — this passage is often called the 'severe letter,' likely preserved nowhere in our canon (or possibly 1 Corinthians, though most scholars think it's lost). The tears authenticate Paul's concern; he is not detached administrator but invested shepherd experiencing the Corinthians' pain as his own.
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