1 Corinthians 4:14

I am not writing all this to shame you, but I am offering you advice as my dearly-loved children.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

In Context

13when slandered, we try to conciliate. We have come to be regarded as the mere dirt and filth of the world--the refuse of the universe, even to this hour.

15For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors--for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.

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Cross References

Acts 20:31Therefore be on the alert; and remember that, night and day, for three years, I never ceased admonishing every one, even with tears.

1 Corinthians 6:5I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent to decide between a man and his brother,

1 Corinthians 15:34Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.

2 Corinthians 7:3I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.

2 Corinthians 12:14See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I will not be a dead weight to you. I desire not your money, but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents, but parents for their children.

Colossians 1:28Him we preach, admonishing every one and instructing every one, with all possible wisdom, so that we may bring every one into God's presence, made perfect through 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 →

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