1 Corinthians 4:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

1 Corinthians 4:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 2:11
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
1 Corinthians 4:15
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
Colossians 1:28
Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-16)

Here Paul challenges their regard to him as their father. He tells them, 1. That what he had written was not for their reproach, but admonition; not with the gall of an enemy, but the bowels of a father (1 Cor. 4:14): I write not to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. Note, In reproving for sin, we should have a tender regard to the reputation, as well as the reformation, of the sinn…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. warn--rather, “admonish” as a father uses “admonition” to “beloved sons,” not provoking them to wrath (Ep 6:4). The Corinthians might well be “ashamed” at the disparity of state between the father, Paul, and his spiritual children themselves.