1 Corinthians 4:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children,
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 6:5 : 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 brethren?
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 ¶ But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak [this] to your shame.
  • 2 Cor 6:11-13 : 11 ¶ O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto [my] children,) be ye also enlarged.
  • 2 Cor 7:3 : 3 I speak not [this] to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with [you].
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
  • 2 Cor 12:14-15 : 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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 very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
  • Col 1:28 : 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all [men].
  • 3 John 1:4 : 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in 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 is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

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    15For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

    16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

    17¶ For this cause have I sent unto 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.

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