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 did, Psalms 44:15, yet usually shame is the effect of an evil conscience, and may prove, by God's blessing, a means of repentance, 2 Thessalonians 3:14 .