1 Corinthians 4:14

Contextual Overview

¹⁴I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you, as my dear children.¹⁴ I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children. ¹⁴But don't think I'm trying to make you feel bad about yourselves. I'm warning you what real cowboying for the Lord is like. ¹⁴ I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.¹⁴I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. ¹⁴ I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right. ¹⁴ Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you]. ¹⁴ I'm not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children. ¹⁴ I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. ¹⁴ I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.

Bible Verse Review
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write: 1 Corinthians 9:15, 2 Corinthians 7:3, 2 Corinthians 12:19

my: 1 Corinthians 4:15, 2 Corinthians 6:11-13, 2 Corinthians 11:11, 2 Corinthians 12:14, 2 Corinthians 12:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:11

I: Ezekiel 3:21, Acts 20:31, Colossians 1:28, 1 Thessalonians 5:14

Reciprocal: Psalms 19:11 - Moreover Proverbs 7:24 - O Ezekiel 3:17 - hear 1 Corinthians 3:6 - I 1 Corinthians 6:5 - to your 1 Corinthians 9:12 - are not 1 Corinthians 16:24 - love 2 Corinthians 6:13 - I speak Galatians 4:19 - little Philippians 2:12 - my beloved 2 Thessalonians 3:15 - admonish 1 Timothy 1:2 - my 1 John 2:1 - little

Cross-References

Genesis 4:5
but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

Genesis 4:5
but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

Genesis 4:5
but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

Genesis 4:5
but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.

Genesis 4:5
But vnto Cain and to his offeryng he had no respect: for the whiche cause Cain was exceedyng wroth, and his countenaunce abated.

Genesis 4:5
But he did not accept Cain and his offering. Cain was sad because of this, and he became very angry.

Genesis 4:5
but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

Genesis 4:5
sotheli he bihelde not to Cayn and to hise yiftis. And Cayn was wrooth greetli, and his cheer felde doun.

Genesis 4:5
But vnto Cain, and to his offring he had not respect: and Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Genesis 4:5
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I write not these things to shame you,.... Though they had a great deal of reason to be ashamed of the vain opinion they had of themselves, and that they suffered the faithful ministers of Christ to want the necessaries of life, when they abounded so much with the good things of it; and though the apostle's view in giving this narrative was to bring them under a sense of their faults, and to a conviction of them, and so to shame for them, in order to their future reformation and amendment; yet it was not merely to put them to the blush, but to admonish and instruct them, that he enlarged on these things:

but as my beloved sons I warn you; they being his children in a spiritual sense, for whom he had the strongest love and affection, as their spiritual Father; and as it was his place, and became him standing in such a relation to them, he warned, admonished, and put them in mind of their obligations and duty to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To shame you - It is not my design to put you to shame by showing you how little you suffer in comparison with us. This is not our design, though it may have this effect. I have no wish to make you ashamed, to appear to triumph over you or merely to taunt you. My design is higher and nobler than this.

But as my beloved sons - As my dear children. I speak as a father to his children, and I say these things for your good. No father would desire to make his children ashamed. In his counsels, entreaties, and admonitions, he would have a higher object than that.

I warn you - I do not say these things in a harsh manner, with a severe spirit of rebuke; but in order to admonish you, to suggest counsel, to instil wisdom into the mind. I say these things not to make, you blush, but with the hope that they may be the means of your reformation, and of a more holy life. No man, no minister, ought to reprove another merely to overwhelm him with shame, but the object should always be to make a brother better; and the admonition should be so administered as to have this end, not sourly or morosely, but in a kind, tender, and affectionate manner.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 4:14. I write not these things to shame you — It is not by way of finding fault with you for not providing me with the necessaries of life that I write thus; but I do it to warn you to act differently for the time to come; and be not so ready to be drawn aside by every pretender to apostleship, to the neglect of those to whom, under God, you owe your salvation.