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# If I caused you pain, who could cheer me up but the very one who was hurt by me?
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Paul uses this rhetorical question to emphasize that neither he nor they would benefit if his coming to them would cause them pain. Alternate translation: "If I caused you pain, the only ones who could cheer me up would be the very ones whom I had hurt." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# the very one who was hurt by me
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "the very one whom I had hurt" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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