1 Corinthians 4:14 I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children.

English Standard Version
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

New American Standard Bible
I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I'm not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children.

International Standard Version
I'm not writing this to make you feel ashamed, but to warn you as my dear children.

American Standard Version
I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.

Darby Bible Translation
Not as chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

Young's Literal Translation
Not as putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:17
For this cause have I sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

1 Corinthians 6:5
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brothers?

1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

2 Corinthians 6:13
Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as to my children,) be you also enlarged.

2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,

2 Thessalonians 3:14
And if any man obey not our word by this letter, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Philemon 1:10
I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

1 John 2:1
My little children, these things write I to you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:14-21 In reproving for sin, we should distinguish between sinners and their sins. Reproofs that kindly and affectionately warn, are likely to reform. Though the apostle spoke with authority as a parent, he would rather beseech them in love. And as ministers are to set an example, others must follow them, as far as they follow Christ in faith and practice. Christians may mistake and differ in their views, but Christ and Christian truth are the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Whenever the gospel is effectual, it comes not in word only, but also in power, by the Holy Spirit, quickening dead sinners, delivering persons from the slavery of sin and Satan, renewing them both inwardly and outwardly, and comforting, strengthening, and establishing the saints, which cannot be done by the persuasive language of men, but by the power of God. And it is a happy temper, to have the spirit of love and meekness bear the rule, yet to maintain just authority.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. warn—rather, "admonish" as a father uses "admonition" to "beloved sons," not provoking them to wrath (Eph 6:4). The Corinthians might well be "ashamed" at the disparity of state between the father, Paul, and his spiritual children themselves.