1 Corinthians 4:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 As you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have 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 who shall be able to judge between his brethren?
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
  • 2 Cor 6:11-13 : 11 O Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged. 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. 13 Now in return for the same (I speak as to my children), you also be enlarged.
  • 2 Cor 7:3 : 3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die and live with you.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.
  • 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 should not 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 am loved.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.
  • 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, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.
  • 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 you warn the righteous man, that the righteous do not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also you have delivered your soul.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 4:15-17
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    15For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

    16Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

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

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

  • Gal 4:11-13
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    11I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.

    12Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you: you have not injured me at all.

    13You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.

  • Heb 12:5-8
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    5And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him:

    6For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."

    7If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

    8But if you are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

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

  • 2 Thess 3:14-15
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    14And if anyone does not obey our word in this letter, note that person and do not associate with him, that he may be ashamed.

    15Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

  • Gal 4:19-20
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    19My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

    20I desire to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.

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

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    8Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do what is fitting,

  • 2 Cor 12:13-14
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    13For in what way were you inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

    14Behold, 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 should not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
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    8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

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

  • 2 Cor 2:4
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    4For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love I have more abundantly toward you.

  • 2 Cor 13:2
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    2I told you before, and foretell now, as if I were present the second time; and being absent now I write to those who have sinned in the past, and to all others, that if I come again, I will not spare:

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

    15Nevertheless, brethren, I have written to you more boldly in part, to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God,

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found to be true.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

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

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    4Lest if those of Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) should be ashamed of this same confident boasting.

  • 2 Cor 1:13
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    13For we write no other things to you than what you read or acknowledge; and I trust you shall acknowledge even to the end;

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9For to this end I also wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in all things.

  • 1 Cor 4:13
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    13Being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9But concerning brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

  • 2 Cor 7:3
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    3I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die and live with you.

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

  • Heb 13:22
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    22And I urge you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.

  • 1 Cor 14:37
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    37If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

  • Acts 20:31
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    31Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Furthermore, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7But we were gentle among you, just as a nurse cherishes her 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 blessing you spoke of? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

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

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

  • 1 Tim 1:3
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    3As I urged you to remain in Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that you might instruct some that they teach no other doctrine,

  • Phil 2:15
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    15That you may be blameless and harmless, children of God, without fault, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;

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