“ I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. ”
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 y...
(10) I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn [you]. (10) Moderating the sharpness of his mockery, he puts them in mind to remember of whom they were begotten in Christ,...
Fatherly Admonition, Entreaty, and Warning. The tone of mingled severity, irony, and pathos disappears; yet the affection is combined with sternness, and he warns them not to presume on his mildnes...
I write, &c . Literally Not as putting you to shame do. write these thing. shame . Greek. entrepo. Occurs elsewhere, Matthew 21:37 ; Mark 12:6 ; Luke 18:2 ; Luke 18:4 ; Luke 20:13 ; 2...
14. I write not these things to shame you As the foregoing instances of irony were very pointed, so that they might exasperate the minds of the Corinthians, he now obviates that dissatisfact...
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you . I write not these things to shame you - It is not by way of finding fault with you for not providing me with the necessarie...
I write not these things to shame you— See 2 Corinthians 11:20 . St. Paul here (from 1 Corinthians 4:8-17 .), by giving an account of his own conduct, gently rebukes them for following men of a d...
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. I write not these things to shame you - for not relieving my needs ( 1 Corinthians 9:15 ). Warn - rather, 'admoni...
Christian Teachers only the Instruments of God The folly and sin of quarrelling about different teachers who are but servants of Christ and responsible to Him.
I write not these things to shame you. — Better, I write these things not as one making you ashamed, but I am warning you as beloved children. The mingled irony and reproach of the preceding vers...
Chapter 7 THE MINISTRY So keenly alive is Paul to the danger and folly of party spirit in the Church, that he has still one more word of rebuke to utter. He has shown the Corinthians that to give...
Teaching Converts Christ's Ways 1 Corinthians 4:14-21 The relationship between the Apostle and his converts was very tender. They were his children. They might have instructors and tutors, but...
Christian teachers are "ministers of Christ." That defines their responsibility. They are "stewards of the mysteries of God." That defines their work. What dignity does this double statement suggest?...
(14) I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. (15) For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have beg...
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 t...
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you . Ver. 14. To shame you ] An innocent person sometimes, upon the fulness of an aspersion, may conceive shame, as David di...
I write not these things to shame you Publicly to disgrace you, and stain your credit with other churches; but as my beloved sons I warn you Show you in a mild and tender way what is wrong in you...
But while we are not to exalt a ministering servant, no more are we to despise him or his work. The apostles should certainly be recognized for what they actually were, "ministers of Christ, and stew...
Paul's Tenderness and Affection. A. D. 57. 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as...
I tell you not of this to make you blush, as having had any hand in these indignities which are put upon us, nor yet to shame you (though possibly you have reason to be ashamed, either for your neg...
‘I write these things not to shame you but to admonish you, as my beloved children. For though you might have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I br...
CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 4:14 .—Irony dropped. Even in 1 Corinthians 4:6 it was “Brothers!” Now, “Beloved children!” Yet surely he did desire to make them ashamed of their bearing towards a...
sons (Greek, "teknon", a "child", "born one").
1 Corinthians 4:1 . Let a man, yea every one of you, however biassed by parties, so account of us, though servants for your sakes, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God,...
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ. The folly of Paul The better to serve Christ, Paul refrained from making acquirement of knowledge his chief aim. And many others have...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 4:1-46 Judgments, human and Divine, respecting ministers. 1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us. Since it is inevitable that Christians should for...
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
1 Corinthians 4:15 ; 1 Corinthians 9:15 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:11 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:14 ; 2 Corinthians 11:11 ; 2 Corinthians 12:14 ; 2 Corinthians 12:15 ; 2 Corinthians 12:19 ; 2 Corinthians...
Christian Stewardship 1 Corinthians 4:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The names surrounding discipleship. Our chapter presents before us several statements which remind us of the responsibility and...
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you — It is with admirable prudence and sweetness the apostle adds this, to prevent any unkind construction of his words....