1 Corinthians 4:14
I do not write these things shaming you, but I warn you as my beloved children.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
In Context
Cross References
Acts 20:31Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.
1 Corinthians 6:5I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?
1 Corinthians 15:34Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.
2 Corinthians 7:3I speak not for condemnation, for I have said before that ye are in our hearts to die together and to live together.
2 Corinthians 12:14Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Colossians 1:28Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 4:8-14
Caution against Censoriousness; Distressed Condition of the Apostles. ( a. d. 57.) 7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a… Read the whole commentary →