1 Corinthians 4:14

I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children,

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

Acts 20:31

So be on guard; and remember that for three years I ceased not to admonish you all, night and day, even with tears.

1 Corinthians 6:5

I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

1 Corinthians 9:15

But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Wake up, do justly, cease from sin; for I say to your shame that some of you have no acquaintance with God.

2 Corinthians 6:11-13

O Corinthians, I am unsealing my lips to you; my heart is wide open to you.

2 Corinthians 7:3

I am not saying this to blame you, for as I have already said, I hold you in my heart to live together and to die together.

2 Corinthians 11:11

And why? Because I love you not? God knows I do.

2 Corinthians 12:14-15

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

2 Corinthians 12:19

Do you think that all this time I am defending myself to you? It is before the presence of God that I am speaking in Christ; and all, beloved, for your upbuilding.

Colossians 1:28

Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are passing their lives in the truth.

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I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

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1 Corinthians 9:15
But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.
2 Corinthians 7:3
I am not saying this to blame you, for as I have already said, I hold you in my heart to live together and to die together.
2 Corinthians 12:19
Do you think that all this time I am defending myself to you? It is before the presence of God that I am speaking in Christ; and all, beloved, for your upbuilding.