World English Bible
"I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children."
— 1 Corinthians 4:14, World English Bible
“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. ”
“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 present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.