If, however, you warn the righteous not to sin and they do not sin, they shall surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved your life.
1 Corinthians 4:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 I am not writing this to make you ashamed but to admonish you as my beloved children. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I do not write this to shame you, but to warn and counsel you as my beloved children. American Standard Version (1901) I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. Common English Bible I’m not writing these things to make you ashamed but to warn you, since you are my loved children. 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children. |
If, however, you warn the righteous not to sin and they do not sin, they shall surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved your life.
Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to warn everyone with tears.
Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
For though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.
For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and trustworthy child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one person wise enough to decide between brothers and sisters?
But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this so that they may be applied in my case. Indeed, I would rather die than that—no one will deprive me of my ground for boasting!
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? We are speaking in Christ before God. Everything we do, beloved, is for the sake of building you up.
I do not say this to condemn you, for I have already said that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.
It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
As you know, we dealt with each one of you like a father with his children,
And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.
Take note of those who do not obey what we say in this letter; have nothing to do with them, so that they may be ashamed.
I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,
I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.