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THE MESSAGE
1 Corinthians 4:14
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I’m not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children.
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued sonnes I warne you.
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I am not trying to make you feel ashamed. I am writing this to give you a warning as my own dear children.
I do not write these things to shame you, but to warn and advise you as my beloved children.
I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
I am not writing to embarrass you. I want to help you, just as parents help their own dear children.
I am not writing you this to make you feel ashamed, but, as my dear children, to confront you and get you to change.
Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you].
I am not trying to make you feel ashamed, but I am writing this to counsel you as my own dear children.
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued children I admonish you.
I do not write these things to make you feel ashamed, but to advise you as beloved children.
I write this to you, not because I want to make you feel ashamed, but to instruct you as my own dear children.
I am not writing these things to shame you, but admonishing you as my dear children.
I do not write these things shaming you, but warning you as my beloved children.
I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right.
I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I'm not writing this to make you feel ashamed, but to warn you as my dear children.1 Thessalonians 2:11;">[xr]
Not as to shame you write I these things, but as my beloved children I admonish (you).
I write these things, not to shame you; but I instruct you, as dear children.
I write not these thynges to shame you, but as my beloued sonnes I warne you.
I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
I am not writing all this to shame you, but I am offering you advice as my dearly-loved children.
Y write not these thingis, that Y confounde you, but Y warne as my moste dereworthe sones.
I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn [you].
I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
I am not writing these things to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
I do not write these things to shame you. I am doing this to help you know what you should do. You are my much-loved children.
I am not writing this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Not, to shame you, write I these things; but, as my beloved children, I admonish you.
I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children.
I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
I write not these thinges to shame you: but as my beloved sonnes I warne you.
Not [as] putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,
I wryte not this to shame you, but as my deare childre I warne you.
This I don't write to give you any confusion, but by way of remonstrance, to you who are my dear children.
But 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.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
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
God spoke to Cain: "Why this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won't you be accepted? And if you don't do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it's out to get you, you've got to master it."
Cain said to God , "My punishment is too much. I can't take it! You've thrown me off the land and I can never again face you. I'm a homeless wanderer on Earth and whoever finds me will kill me."
God told him, "No. Anyone who kills Cain will pay for it seven times over." God put a mark on Cain to protect him so that no one who met him would kill him.
Cain left the presence of God and lived in No-Man's-Land, east of Eden.
"As for those among you still alive, I'll give them over to fearful timidity—even the rustle of a leaf will throw them into a panic. They'll run here and there, back and forth, as if running for their lives even though no one is after them, tripping and falling over one another in total confusion. You won't stand a chance against an enemy. You'll perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will eat you up. Any who are left will slowly rot away in the enemy lands. Rot. And all because of their sins, their sins compounded by their ancestors' sins.
"In such cases the avenger has a right to kill the murderer when he meets him—he can kill him on the spot.
Hurry with your answer, God ! I'm nearly at the end of my rope. Don't turn away; don't ignore me! That would be certain death. If you wake me each morning with the sound of your loving voice, I'll go to sleep each night trusting in you. Point out the road I must travel; I'm all ears, all eyes before you. Save me from my enemies, God — you're my only hope! Teach me how to live to please you, because you're my God. Lead me by your blessed Spirit into cleared and level pastureland.
The evil of bad people leaves them out in the cold; the integrity of good people creates a safe place for living.
The wicked are edgy with guilt, ready to run off even when no one's after them; Honest people are relaxed and confident, bold as lions.
The source of all this doom to Jerusalem and Judah was God 's anger. God turned his back on them as an act of judgment. Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar set out for Jerusalem with a full army. He set up camp and sealed off the city by building siege mounds around it. He arrived on the ninth year and tenth month of Zedekiah's reign. The city was under siege for nineteen months (until the eleventh year of Zedekiah).
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.
