I am not writing this to shame you. You are my dear children, and I want to warn you.

我写这话，不是叫你们羞愧，乃是警戒你们，好像我所亲爱的儿女一样。

我写这些话，不是要使你们羞愧，而是要警戒你们，好像我所爱的儿女一样。

我写这些话，不是要使你们羞愧，而是要警戒你们，好像我所爱的儿女一样。

我之所以写这些事，并非是叫你们羞愧，而是像劝诫我亲爱的儿女一样劝诫你们。

我写这些话，不是要叫你们羞愧，而是把你们当作我亲爱的儿女一样劝戒你们。

我写这些，不是要你们感到羞愧，而是把你们当做我亲爱的儿女来劝诫。

我寫這話，不是叫你們羞愧，乃是警戒你們，好像我所親愛的兒女一樣。

我寫這些話，不是要使你們羞愧，而是要警戒你們，好像我所愛的兒女一樣。

我寫這些話，不是要使你們羞愧，而是要警戒你們，好像我所愛的兒女一樣。

我之所以寫這些事，並非是叫你們羞愧，而是像勸誡我親愛的兒女一樣勸誡你們。

我寫這些話，不是要叫你們羞愧，而是把你們當作我親愛的兒女一樣勸戒你們。

我寫這些話、不是要叫你們羞愧，乃是要勸戒你們、像我親愛的兒女一樣。

我寫這些，不是要你們感到羞愧，而是把你們當做我親愛的兒女來勸誡。

余書此、非以愧爾、乃警爾、如我愛子、

余書此、非以愧爾、乃勸爾、如吾愛子、

我書此、非欲愧爾、乃欲勸爾、如我之愛子、

予之書此、非欲愧爾、乃欲規爾。予視爾如愛兒、有所見不忍不告也。

I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children.

I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

I am not writing these things to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.

I’m not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children.

I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

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

I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

I’m not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children.

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

I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

You know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children.

Suppose you had 10,000 believers in Christ watching over you. You still wouldn’t have many fathers. I became your father by serving Christ Jesus and telling you the good news.

Now I am ready to visit you for the third time. I won’t cause you any expense. I don’t want what you have. What I really want is you. After all, children shouldn’t have to save up for their parents. Parents should save up for their children.So I will be very happy to spend everything I have for you. I will even spend myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

Why? Because I don’t love you? No! God knows I do!

I say this to shame you. Is it possible that no one among you is wise enough to judge matters between believers?

So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning you. Night and day I warned each of you with tears.

Believers at Corinth, we have spoken freely to you. We have opened our hearts wide to you.We are not holding back our love from you. But you are holding back your love from us.I speak to you as if you were my children. It is only fair that you open your hearts wide to us also.

But suppose you do warn a godly person not to sin. And they do not sin. Then you can be sure that they will live because they listened to your warning. And you will have saved yourself.”

All this time, have you been thinking that I’ve been speaking up for myself? No, I’ve been speaking with God as my witness. I’ve been speaking like a believer in Christ. Dear friends, everything I do is to help you become stronger.

You should come back to your senses and stop sinning. Some of you don’t know anything about God. I say this to make you ashamed.

Christ is the one we preach about. With all the wisdom we have, we warn and teach everyone. When we bring them to God, we want them to be like Christ. We want them to be grown up as people who belong to Christ.

I don’t say this to judge you. I have told you before that you have an important place in our hearts. We would live or die with you.

Brothers and sisters, we are asking you to warn certain people. These people don’t want to work. Instead, they make trouble. We are also asking you to encourage those who have lost hope. Help those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.

But I haven’t used any of those rights. And I’m not writing because I hope you will do things like that for me. I would rather die than allow anyone to take away my pride in my work.

(niv)