1 Corinthians 4:14
Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you].
Darby Translation
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 20:31Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one [of you] with tears.
1 Corinthians 6:5I speak to you [to put you] to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.
2 Corinthians 7:3I do not speak for condemnation, for I have already said that ye are in our hearts, to die together, and live together.
2 Corinthians 12:14Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Colossians 1:28whom *we* announce, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every man perfect in Christ.
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 →