1 Corinthians 4:14
I'm not writing like this to make you feel ashamed, but to caution you as my children whom I love so much.
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In The King James Version
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
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Acts 20:31So watch out! Don't forget that for three years I went on instructing all of you night and day, often crying over you.
1 Corinthians 6:5I'm trying to shame you by saying this. What? You can't find one wise person among you who can settle a dispute that you have?
1 Corinthians 15:34Come to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! Some of you don't know God. I tell you this to shame you.
2 Corinthians 7:3I'm not saying this to condemn you—as I already told you, you mean so much to us that we live and die together with you!
2 Corinthians 12:14Now I'm preparing to visit you for the third time, and I won't be a burden to you. I don't want what you have, I want you yourselves! After all, children shouldn't save up for their parents, but parents should for their children.
Colossians 1:28We're telling everyone about him, instructing and teaching them in the best way we know how so that we can bring everyone before God fully mature 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 →