1 Corinthians 4:14

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I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.

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  • 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 Just as you know how we dealt with each one of you like a father with his own children,
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For even if you have countless teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 I say this to your shame. Is there not one wise person among you who is able to judge between fellow believers?
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I have not made use of any of these rights, and I am not writing this to make it happen for me. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
  • 2 Cor 6:11-13 : 11 We have spoken openly to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open. 12 You are not limited by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. 13 Now in return—I speak as to children—open your heart wide as well.
  • 2 Cor 7:3 : 3 I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you are in our hearts, to live together and to die together.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
  • 2 Cor 12:14-15 : 14 Look, I am ready to come to you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. 15 And I will most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved less?
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, do you think that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking before God in Christ, and all these things, beloved, are for your edification.
  • Col 1:28 : 28 We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 Now we urge you, brothers, admonish those who are idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
  • 3 John 1:4 : 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
  • Ezek 3:21 : 21 But if you warn a righteous person not to sin and he does not sin, he will surely live because he heeded the warning, and you will have saved yourself.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore, be watchful, remembering that for three years I never stopped admonishing each one of you with tears, night and day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 4:15-17
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    15For even if you have countless teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.

    16Therefore, I urge you to imitate me.

    17For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10This is why I write these things while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to be harsh in my use of the authority that the Lord gave me for building you up, not tearing you down.

  • Gal 4:11-13
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    11I fear for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been in vain.

    12I beg you, brothers: Become like me, for I also became like you. You have done me no wrong.

    13You know that it was because of a weakness in my flesh that I first preached the gospel to you.

  • Heb 12:5-8
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    5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not take lightly the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when you are reproved by Him."

    6For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He chastises every son He accepts.

    7If you endure discipline, God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

    8If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

  • 1 Thess 2:11
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    11Just as you know how we dealt with each one of you like a father with his own children,

  • 2 Thess 3:14-15
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    14If anyone does not obey our instructions in this letter, take note of that person and do not associate with them, so that they may be ashamed.

    15Yet do not regard them as an enemy, but warn them as a brother or sister.

  • Gal 4:19-20
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    19My dear children, I am again suffering birth pains for you until Christ is formed in you.

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

  • Eph 6:4
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    4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

  • 2 Cor 12:13-14
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    13For in what way were you less favored than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

    14Look, I am ready to come to you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
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    8Even if I boast a little more about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

    9I do not want to seem as though I am trying to frighten you with my letters.

  • 2 Cor 2:4
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    4For out of great distress and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the love I have for you more abundantly.

  • 2 Cor 13:2
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    2I have said before, and I am saying again now as though present, even though I am absent, to those who have sinned previously and to all the rest: If I come again, I will not spare anyone.

  • Rom 15:14-15
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    14I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

    15Yet I have written to you quite boldly on some points, to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus has been found to be true as well.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over and against another.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    4Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we would be ashamed—not to mention you—in this confidence of boasting.

  • 2 Cor 1:13
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    13For we write nothing to you other than what you can read and understand, and I hope that you will fully understand,

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, do you think that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking before God in Christ, and all these things, beloved, are for your edification.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
    69%

    20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
    69%

    9For this reason, I also wrote to you, to test you and see if you are obedient in everything.

  • 1 Cor 4:13
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    13When we are slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the scum of the earth, the refuse of all, even until now.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

  • 2 Cor 7:3
    69%

    3I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you are in our hearts, to live together and to die together.

  • 1 Tim 3:14
    69%

    14I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you soon.

  • Heb 13:22
    69%

    22I urge you, brothers, to bear with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

  • 1 Cor 14:37
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    37If anyone considers themselves to be a prophet or spiritually gifted, let them acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are the Lord’s commands.

  • Acts 20:31
    69%

    31Therefore, be watchful, remembering that for three years I never stopped admonishing each one of you with tears, night and day.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Finally, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, just as you received instructions from us on how you ought to live and please God, that you would excel even more.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7Although we could have asserted our authority as apostles of Christ, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her own children.

  • 1 Tim 4:11
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    11Command and teach these things.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15What happened to your blessedness? I testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

  • 3 John 1:13
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    13I had many things to write, but I do not want to write to you with ink and pen.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17But you, beloved, remember the words that were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Tim 1:3
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    3Just as I urged you to remain in Ephesus when I went to Macedonia, so that you might command certain people not to teach false doctrines,

  • Phil 2:15
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    15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverted generation. Among them, you shine as lights in the world,

  • Rev 3:19
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    19Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.