1 Corinthians 4:14

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.
  • 2 Cor 6:11-13 : 11 Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections. 13 Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged.
  • 2 Cor 7:3 : 3 I say it not to condemn [you] : for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
  • 2 Cor 12:14-15 : 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.
  • Col 1:28 : 28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
  • 3 John 1:4 : 4 Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.
  • Ezek 3:21 : 21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 4:15-17
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    15For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

    16I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

    17For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

  • Gal 4:11-13
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    11I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

    12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

    13but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:

  • Heb 12:5-8
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    5and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

    6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

    7It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not?

    8But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

  • 1 Thess 2:11
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    11as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,

  • 2 Thess 3:14-15
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    14And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

    15And [yet] count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

  • Gal 4:19-20
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    19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

    20but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

  • Eph 6:4
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    4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • 2 Cor 12:13-14
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    13For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.

    14Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
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    8For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

    9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

  • 2 Cor 2:4
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    4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

  • 2 Cor 13:2
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    2I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

  • Rom 15:14-15
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    14And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

    15But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    4lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

  • 2 Cor 1:13
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    13For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

  • 1 Cor 4:13
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    13being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

  • 2 Cor 7:3
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    3I say it not to condemn [you] : for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.

  • 1 Tim 3:14
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    14These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly;

  • Heb 13:22
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    22But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written unto you in few words.

  • 1 Cor 14:37
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    37If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

  • Acts 20:31
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    31Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

  • 1 Tim 4:11
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    11These things command and teach.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • 3 John 1:13
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    13I had many things to write unto thee, but I am unwilling to write [them] to thee with ink and pen:

  • Jude 1:17
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    17But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • 1 Tim 1:3
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    3As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

  • Phil 2:15
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    15that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

  • Rev 3:19
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    19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.