1 Corinthians 4:14-17 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.

RKJNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. ¹⁵ For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. ¹⁶ Therefore I urge you, be imitators of me. ¹⁷ For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.