1 Corinthians 4:14

World English Bible (2000)

I don't write 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 you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
  • 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
  • 2 Cor 6:11-13 : 11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged. 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. 13 Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.
  • 2 Cor 7:3 : 3 I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.
  • 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 your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 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 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak 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 Jesus;
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
  • 3 John 1:4 : 4 I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.
  • Ezek 3:21 : 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

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  • 1 Cor 4:15-17
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    15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

    16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

    17Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

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

  • Gal 4:11-13
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    11I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

    12I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

    13but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

  • Heb 12:5-8
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    5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

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

    7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

    8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

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

  • 2 Thess 3:14-15
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    14If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

    15Don't count him 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 is 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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    4You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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    8Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 2 Cor 12:13-14
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    13For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is 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 your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save 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 abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

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

  • 2 Cor 2:4
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    4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for 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, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

  • Rom 15:14-15
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    14I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

    15But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

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    6Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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    4so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

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

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you 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 dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

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

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

  • 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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    22But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.

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

  • Acts 20:31
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    31Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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

  • Gal 4:15
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    15What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you 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 to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;

  • Jude 1:17
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    17But you, beloved, remember 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 urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

  • Phil 2:15
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    15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you 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.