I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
1 Corinthians 4:14
Surrounding context
4:13 being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
4:14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
4:15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.