Catholic Public Domain Version
"I am not writing these things in order to confound you, but in order to admonish you, as my dearest sons. "
— 1 Corinthians 4:14, Catholic Public Domain Version
“I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn 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.”
“A Father’s Warning I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.”
“I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest 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 write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. ”
Even to this very hour, we hunger and thirst, and we are naked and repeatedly beaten, and we are unsteady.
And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution.
We are cursed, and so we pray. We have become like the refuse of this world, like the reside of everything, even until now.
I am not writing these things in order to confound you, but in order to admonish you, as my dearest sons.
For you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but not so many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel, I have begotten you.
Therefore, I beg you, be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.
For this reason, I have sent you Timothy, who is my dearest son, and who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere, in every church.