1 Corinthians 4:14

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. ¹⁴ I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued children I admonish you. ¹⁴I’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 Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you]. ¹⁴ I am not trying to make you feel ashamed, but I am writing this to counsel you as my own dear children. ¹⁴I do not write these things to shame you, but to warn and advise you as my beloved children.¹⁴ I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. ¹⁴I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.¹⁴ I am not writing to embarrass you. I want to help you, just as parents help their own dear children.

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 vnto Kain and to his offering he had no regarde: wherefore Kain was exceeding wroth, and his countenance fell downe.

Genesis 4:5
But with Cain and with his offering he was not pleased. So Cain was exceedingly displeased, and his countenance was sad.

Genesis 4:5
but he didn't respect Kayin and his offering. Kayin was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

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 face fell.

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

Genesis 4:5
But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.

Genesis 4:5
but not with Cain and his offering. This made Cain so angry that he could not hide his feelings.

Genesis 4:5
but did not accept Kayin and his offering. Kayin was very angry, and his face fell.

Genesis 4:5
and upon Cain, and on his offering, he did not look. And Cain was very angry, 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.