1 Corinthians 4:14
I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.
Montgomery New Testament
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 20:31So be on guard; and remember that for three years I ceased not to admonish you all, night and day, even with tears.
1 Corinthians 6:5I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?
1 Corinthians 15:34Wake up, do justly, cease from sin; for I say to your shame that some of you have no acquaintance with God.
2 Corinthians 7:3I am not saying this to blame you, for as I have already said, I hold you in my heart to live together and to die together.
2 Corinthians 12:14And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Colossians 1:28Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown 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 →