Bible verse
I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
1 Corinthians 4:14 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 4.
10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.
11 To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
13 when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
14 I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
15 Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
16 Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
17 That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
KJV
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn [you].
ASV
I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
ERV
I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
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