1 Corinthians 4:14
I am not writing all this to shame you, but I am offering you advice as my dearly-loved children.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,
1 Corinthians 4:15
For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors--for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.
Acts 20:31
Therefore be on the alert; and remember that, night and day, for three years, I never ceased admonishing every one, even with tears.
1 Corinthians 6:5
I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent to decide between a man and his brother,
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I, for my part, have not used, and do not use, my full rights in any of these things. Nor do I now write with that object so far as I myself am concerned, for I would rather die than have anybody make this boast of mine an empty one.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.
2 Corinthians 6:11-13
O Corinthians, our lips are unsealed to you: our heart is expanded.
2 Corinthians 7:3
I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.
2 Corinthians 11:11
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.
2 Corinthians 12:14-15
See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I will not be a dead weight to you. I desire not your money, but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents, but parents for their children.
2 Corinthians 12:19
You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our defense at your bar. In reality it is as in God's presence and in communion with Christ that we speak; but, dear friends, it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.
Colossians 1:28
Him we preach, admonishing every one and instructing every one, with all possible wisdom, so that we may bring every one into God's presence, made perfect through Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the timid, sustain the weak, and be patient towards all.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living in obedience to the truth.