14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
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As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
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.
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.
Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
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 sin…
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