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1 Corinthians 4:14

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I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

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However, if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he will certainly live because he was warned, and you will have saved your own life.”

Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God – I say this to your shame!

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For this reason, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

I say this to your shame! Is there no one among you wise enough to settle disputes between fellow Christians?

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than – no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.

I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you.

We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.

As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all.

But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed.

I am appealing to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become during my imprisonment, that is, Onesimus,

(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 One,

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.




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